Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Threat to Occupational Health in the United States and Canada offers a critical review of existing plans and infrastructures for emerging diseases and the response capabilities of healthcare delivery systems to protect the occupational health and offers many solutions.

Features:

• Offers a critical analyses of existing response capability to infectious diseases based on case studies from the responses to SARS, influenza, and smallpox
• Examines the effectiveness and flaws of bioterrorism response protocols in place
• Assesses the level of preparedness of both hospitals and the public health system for pandemics
• Provides valuable insight on flaws and realistic solutions for improving response capability
• Other topics include respiratory protection, ventilation models for emerging diseases, and coordinating public health responses

Contents

Two Reports from the Front Line: Two Nurses Union Offcials Report on Saftey Issues During the SARS Crisis in Canada

• Presentation to the Commission to Investigate the Introduction and Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• Presentation to the Commission to Investigate the Introduction and Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Personal Protective Equipment

• Respirators and Other Personal Protective Equipment for Health Care Workers
• Airborne Pathogens: Selection of Respiratory Protection

The Multifaceted Systems Involved in Protecting Against Occupationally Acquired Respiratory Infectious Diseases

• Knowledge Gaps and Research Priorities for Effective Protection against Occupationally Acquired Respiratory Infectious Diseases: A Canadian Perspective
• Ventilation Systems for Handling Infectious Diseases in a Healthcare Environment

Deterioration of Public Health System and the Squandering of Limited Resources

• Infectious Diseases, A Resurgent Problem: Developing Effective Public Health Responses
• The Fallacy of Bioterrorism Programs: A Catastrophe for U.S. Public Health

Influenza: The Old and Present Threat

• A Killer Flu? Planning for the Devastating Effects of the Inevitable Pandemic
• Influenza: Biology, Transmission, Course, Complications, Prevention, and Treatment

Infectious Diseases and the Bureaucracies That Are Accountable for Public Safety

• Hospital Cleaners and Housekeepers: The Frontline Workers in Emerging Diseases
• Establishing Cooperative Synergy: Which Agencies, Which Departments
• A Rural Hospital's Preparedness for an Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemic

Index

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