Citizen Engagement in Emergency Planning for a Flu Pandemic A Summary of the October 23, 2006 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Citizen Engagement in Emergency Planning for a Flu Pandemic: A Summary of the October 23, 2006 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable
Citizen Engagement in Emergency Planning for a Flu Pandemic: A Summary of the October 23, 2006 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable
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. Avian influenza is an infectious disease primarily found in wild, migratory birds and poultry, caused by influenza A strains of the virus.
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Panelists: Eric Toner, Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Bruce Gellin, National Vaccine Program Office, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ; Joshua Sharfstein, Department of Health, Baltimore National Plans for Confronting a Pandemic Flu Pandemic influenza predictions are based on the three pandemics of the twentieth century: the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu (responsible for 40 million deaths)
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Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, has also convened summits hosted by governors in states across the country to stress the importance of a pandemic influenza threat and encourage states and localities to engage in preparedness activities. Gellin addressed HHS efforts to strengthen pandemic response in the areas of vaccine and antivirals.2 He noted that because influenza viruses are constantly mutating, we cannot reliably predict the strain that will infect people.
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Local Expectations and Readiness for Pandemic Flu Pandemic response also includes disease containment efforts such as possible quarantines, travel restrictions, social distancing (e.g., school and workplace closures, canceling mass assemblies) , and infection control (e.g., use of gloves, masks, hand washing)
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Leavitt characterized the public health department's response as one of discriminatory strong-arm tactics that did not involve community input or rely on consensusbuilding. The Milwaukee public health department's pandemic response to the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak was met with considerably less public resistance due to Health Commissioner George Ruhland's active involvement of community actors.
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Pandemic Risk Communication in the Internet Age The proliferation of the Internet and its increased use by the public worldwide has created new tools to engage and inform the public about a potential influenza pandemic. Retired physician Susan Chu remarked that the nonprofit Flu Wiki Forum, which she moderates from the United Kingdom, serves as an online clearinghouse for pandemic influenza preparedness and education.
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Chatingy concluded that public engagement is an immense but necessary endeavor to ensure that the concerns and needs of all citizens are incorporated into pandemic influenza preparedness policies and activities. Involving Citizens and Stakeholders in Select Vaccine Policy Decisions Throughout the workshop's proceedings, several participants expressed concerns about the ethical issues involved in deciding which groups will and will not be vaccinated in the advent of an influenza pandemic.
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To help determine how to effectively involve the public in vaccine policy decisions, VPACE launched the Public Engagement Pilot Project on Pandemic Influenza (PEPPPI)
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Darlene Sparks Washington, director of preparedness and team lead for Influenza Pandemic Planning at the American Red Cross, stated that in this scenario the 775 local chapters spread across the United States would be charged with responding to the event. The American Red Cross is currently involved in preevent planning activities that include polling communities to ascertain the public's expectations of the American Red Cross during an outbreak, reported Washington.
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2005b. Citizen Voices on Pandemic Flu Choices: A Report of the Public Engagement Pilot Project on Pandemic Influenza.
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2007. Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza A/(H5N1)
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