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Selecting Nonpharmaceutical Strategies to Minimize Influenza Spread: The 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic and Beyond.
- Source :
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Public Health Reports . Nov/Dec2012, Vol. 127 Issue 6, p565-571. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Shortly after the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 pandemic began, the U.S. government provided guidance to state and local authorities to assist decision-making for the use of nonpharmaceutical strategies to minimize influenza spread. This guidance included recommendations for flexible decision-making based on outbreak severity, and it allowed for uncertainty and course correction as the pandemic progressed. These recommendations build on a foundation of local, collaborative planning and posit a series of questions regarding epidemiology, the impact on the health-care system, and locally determined feasibility and acceptability of nonpharmaceutical strategies. This article describes recommendations and key questions for decision makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COMMUNICATION methodology
*PREVENTION of epidemics
*MEDICAL care
*PUBLIC health surveillance
*PREVENTION of communicable diseases
*CONCEPTUAL structures
*DECISION making
*EPIDEMIOLOGY
*GOAL (Psychology)
*MEDICAL databases
*INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
*INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
*LOCAL government
*INSTITUTIONAL cooperation
*SEVERITY of illness index
*H1N1 influenza
*EVALUATION
PLANNING techniques
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00333549
- Volume :
- 127
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Public Health Reports
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 83362835
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/003335491212700606