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Managing Threats and Ensuring Healthy Communities: Health of the Public
Managing Threats and Ensuring Healthy Communities: Health of the Public
Pages 75-84
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Preenting disease, early detection, and effectie treatment Since its founding, the IOM has consistently stressed the value of prevention of disease, a core tenet of public health. In studies ranging from core principles and needs in the field to specific issues such as health disparities, vaccine safety, smoking cessation, and reducing environmental hazards, the IOM continues to advance the best ways to ensure the public's health.
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The report urges the inclusion of stakeholders beyond federal agencies in framing the plan's scope, goals, and objectives. Additional contributors should include the pharmaceutical industry, insurers, health care providers and other purchasers of health care services, researchers across a range of basic and applied sciences, state and local public health agencies responsible for vaccine delivery, schools and day care centers, foundations and other not-for-profit organizations, the mass media, and, importantly, the public (including people with varying perspectives on the value of immunization)
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; FDA = Food and Drug Administration; HRSA = Health Resources and Services Administration; NIH = National Institutes of Health; HHS (other departments, such Office. NDepart Legend: Gray boxes represent federal agencies in NVPO = National Vaccine Program as the otes about the federal advisory committeesAffairs, ACCV includes attorneys for also play important roles in the ments of Defense, Veterans above: and Homeland Security, injured children and for industry; NVAC Includes public, industry, state public health, and healthfederal advisory committees associated with HHS and immunization system)
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The IOM's Roundtable on Health Literacy examined this safety issue in a workshop that brought together a diverse array of participants, includ ing representatives from government, the pharmacy field, the health care community, the research enterprise, and the pub lic, among others. Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less: Workshop Summary (2008)
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reducing enironmental and foodborne threats Many public health concerns stem from some type of agent that humans release into the environment. This release may result from the activities of society -- for example, from industries that emit chemical pollutants -- or from the actions of individuals, as in the instance of cigarette smoking.
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Even then, registry officials had concerns about the methods used and the conclusions drawn in the draft, and the registry released a revised draft report in 2008. This further revision attracted criticism of its scientific integrity, however, and the CDC asked the IOM to conduct an independent study.
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In 2008–2009, the IOM held a workshop on the capacity of the health care system to treat an affected population in the case of a nuclear event; published a report discussing how the global health community can strengthen surveillance and response to emerging zoonotic diseases; and will release late in the year another report that evaluates the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, which is intended to detect airborne biological threats. Three previous IOM reports provide insights into how government might respond to an outbreak of pandemic influenza
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Identify and address issues concerning legal authority and liability barriers to effectively monitor, pre vent, or respond to a public health emergency.
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Testing operational capabilities. Practice, review, report on, and improve public health emergency preparedness by regularly using real public health events, supplemented with drills and exercises when appropriate.
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All emphasize the vital importance of meeting the needs of the health care workers and other front-line personnel who provide care for others during an influenza pandemic. As part of a national effort to ensure security, Congress in 2006 enacted the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act, which called for refocusing the research priorities of the network of Centers for Public Health Preparedness now operating at 27 accredited schools of public health nationwide.
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