Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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. The event brought together experts from govern ment, nongovernmental organizations, academia, and the private sector to explore current assumptions behind the status of medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear incident, examine potential changes in these assumptions in light of increasing concerns about the use of nuclear warfare, and discuss challenges and opportunities for capacity building in the current threat environment (see Box 1-1 for the workshop's complete Statement of Task)
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Specific topics that may be discussed in this workshop include • current state of medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear the incident and how these relate to the prior assumptions about the threat environment; • possible changes to planning assumptions for nuclear incidents, with particular attention to the (re) emergence of state actor threats, and the implications of those changes for nuclear incident prevention, planning, and response;
• implications for capacity building of potential communication, education and information challenges posed by a nuclear incident, and opportuni ties and approaches for addressing them; and • challenges, opportunities, and implications for building capabilities to respond to and recover from a nuclear incident, including building capa bility for assessment, early treatment, monitoring, and long-term health surveillance among survivors.
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This, in large part, is why this particular assembly of experts was convened, he said, referring to the many repre sentatives of the health care and public health community responsible for preparing to manage the consequences of such acts of aggression. Blumenstock noted that while the workshop was initially planned to include a focus on radiation in addition to nuclear incident preparedness, it did not take long for the planning committee to realize that the workshop needed to more narrowly focus on the current imminent threat.
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Chapter 5 discusses communication, education, and information challenges of nuclear events. Chapter 6 addresses challenges for building capacity to respond to nuclear incidents across the health care system.
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