Overview
- Differences between responding to natural and deliberately caused disease outbreaks
- Detailed description of public health preparedness for unusual disease events in South Eastern European and selected other states, allowing comparison
- Health security and disease detection on the European Union level Role of the military in public health security
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology (NAPSA)
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About this book
The terrorist use of diseases as bioweapons has been one of the major security concerns in recent years, particularly after the anthrax letter attacks in the USA in 2001. This uncertain threat of intentional outbreaks of diseases exists side by side with the constantly changing very real threat from diseases, epidemics and pandemics as recently illustrated by the H1N1 influenza pandemic, SARS, and H5N1 bird influenza events.
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This publication contains case studies on the public health planning for (un)usual disease outbreaks for 11 large and small countries with a focus on South Eastern Europe. In many countries, military entities traditionally play an important role in emergency response to disease outbreaks. In smaller countries, very little exists, however, in terms of specific biopreparedness efforts (in both the military and civilian area), which is at least partly due to a relatively low bioterrorism threat perception, and serious resource constraints.
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The uncertainty associated with the bioterrorism threat makes public health preparedness planning for such events politically and financially very difficult. The similarity of responding to bioterrorism events and natural disease outbreaks from a public health point of view suggests the merit of looking at biopreparedness as a part of overall health emergency planning, not as a separate effort.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biopreparedness and Public Health
Book Subtitle: Exploring Synergies
Editors: Iris Hunger, Vladan Radosavljevic, Goran Belojevic, Lisa D. Rotz
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5273-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5272-6Published: 20 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5299-3Published: 21 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5273-3Published: 20 October 2012
Series ISSN: 1874-6489
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6527
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 225
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Emergency Services, Infectious Diseases