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Risk Assessment and Risk Communication Strategies in Bioterrorism Preparedness

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Manfred S. Green

    1. Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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  2. Jonathan Zenilman

    1. Division of Infection Diseases, John Hopkin University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

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  3. Dani Cohen

    1. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and the Tel Aviv University Center for the Study of Bioterrorism, Israel

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  4. Itay Wiser

    1. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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  5. Ran D. Balicer

    1. Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negav, Israel

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  • Scarcity of relevant evidence-based resources
  • Practical approach for coping with current bioterrorism threats
  • Authored by leading scientists with extensive field experience
  • Multidisciplinary approach

Part of the book series: Nato Security through Science Series A: (NASTA)

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Table of contents (26 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Bioterrorism Risk Assessment

      • Ran D. Balicer, Itay Wiser
      Pages 3-17

    3. Some Public Health Perspectives on Quantitative Risk Assessments for Bioterrorism

      • Steve Leach
      Pages 19-29

    4. Situational Awareness in a Bioterror Attack via Probability Modeling

      • Edward H. Kaplan, Johan Walden
      Pages 31-44

    5. The Bioterrorism Threat

      • Yair Sharan
      Pages 45-54

    6. Change of Mind-Set Following 9/11: The few that are already willing to Resort to Weapons of Mass Destruction

      • Yoram Schweitzer
      Pages 55-66

    7. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis and Providing Subacute Care in the Context of a Bioterrorism Event: Lessons learned from 2001

      • Jonathan Zenilman
      Pages 67-76

    8. Detecting and Responding to Bioterrorism

      • Janet Martha Blatny
      Pages 77-92

    9. Species-Neutral Disease Surveillance: A Foundation of Risk Assessment and Communication

      • David R. Franz
      Pages 93-99

  3. Risk Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Introduction to Bioterrorism Risk Communication

      • Itay Wiser, Ran D. Balicer
      Pages 103-116

    3. Risk Communication to Health-Care Workers as a Risk Reduction Measure in Bioterrorism

      • Yoav Yehezkelli, Yoram Amsalem, Adi Aran
      Pages 117-121

    4. Anthrax-Euronet and Beyond – Challenges of Scientific Research on High Risk Agents

      • Amanda J. Ozin, Stephen H. E. Kaufmann
      Pages 123-130

    5. Risk Communication and Public Behavior in Emergencies

      • Yair Amikam
      Pages 131-133

    6. Prevention Strategies and Promoting Psychological Resilience to Bioterrorism Through Communication

      • Anne Speckhard
      Pages 135-162

    7. Risk Communication and the Community Response to a Bioterrorist Attack: the Role of an Internet-Based early warning system A.K.A “The Informal Sector”

      • Marjorie Pollack
      Pages 163-175

    8. Information Systems for Risk Communication Related to Bioterrorism

      • Manfred S. Green, Zalamn Kaufman
      Pages 177-191

  4. Focus on Smallpox

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Risk Assessment in Smallpox Bioterrorist Aggression

      • Marian Negut
      Pages 195-203
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About this book

The anthrax envelopes incident in the United States in 2001 created the impetus for a substantial increase in preparedness for bioterrorist threats among both public health and law enforcement professionals, worldwide. Ever increasing resources are now being allocated for dealing with a wide variety of potential threats, from the reintroduction of eradicated viruses such as smallpox to the possibility of genetically engineered novel pathogens. Despite the potentially devastating consequences of the various projected bioterror scenarios, it remains remarkably difficult to quantitatively assess the actual risk in each of these scenarios. Nevertheless, such risk assessment is crucial for determining the appropriate allocation of resources for research and preparedness.

The public anxiety expected during a large-scale bioterrorism attack may even be more damaging than the direct effects of the bioterrorism agent, both in health-related and economic outcomes. Carefully tailored risk communication is a major tool for individuals, decision-makers or even entire communities to make educated decisions about their responses to well-being, and avoid social disruption.

In this book, we have included articles from leading experts in the various disciplines associated with risk assessment and risk communication associated with bioterrorism. These papers are based on presentations at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Israel in June 2005, which addressed these issues. The resulting volume integrates the viewpoints of public health, law enforcement, risk analysis and media experts into a comprehensive, practical guide for approaching risk assessment and risk communication in a bioterrorism event.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Manfred S. Green

  • Division of Infection Diseases, John Hopkin University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

    Jonathan Zenilman

  • Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and the Tel Aviv University Center for the Study of Bioterrorism, Israel

    Dani Cohen

  • Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Itay Wiser

  • Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negav, Israel

    Ran D. Balicer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Risk Assessment and Risk Communication Strategies in Bioterrorism Preparedness

  • Editors: Manfred S. Green, Jonathan Zenilman, Dani Cohen, Itay Wiser, Ran D. Balicer

  • Series Title: Nato Security through Science Series A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5808-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5806-6Published: 02 May 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5807-3Published: 02 May 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5808-0Published: 10 April 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1871-4641

  • Series E-ISSN: 1871-4684

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 248

  • Topics: Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology

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