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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960614003321

Titolo

Preparing for terrorism : tools for evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program / / Frederick J. Manning and Lewis Goldfrank, editors ; Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c2002

ISBN

9786610183760

9780309169363

0309169364

9781280183768

1280183764

9780309502030

0309502039

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xx, 310 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

ManningFrederick J

GoldfrankLewis R. <1941->

Disciplina

362.18

Soggetti

Disaster medicine

Emergency medical services

Terrorism - Health aspects

Weapons of mass destruction - Health aspects

Emergency management

Health planning

Terrorism

Disaster Planning - organization & administration

Emergency Medical Services - organization & administration

Health Planning

Mass Casualty Incidents

Program Evaluation - methods

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Emergency Medical Services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Preface -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Community Emergency Management and Available Federal Assistance -- 3 Federal Efforts to Increase State and Local Preparedness for Terrorism -- 4 Metropolitan Medical Response System Program Contracts -- 5 Measurement and Data Collection in Evaluation -- 6 Preparedness Indicators -- 7 Feedback to Office of Emergency Preparedness on Program Management -- 8 Feedback to Office of Emergency Preparedness on Program Success -- 9 Closing Remarks -- References -- A Committee and Staff Biographies -- B Selected Information About Federal Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Consequence Management Response Teams (Appendix II, General Accounting Office Report GAO-01-14) -- C Metropolitan Medical Response System Program Cities -- D 2000 MMRS Contract Deliverable Evaluation Instrument -- E Preparedness Indicators for Metropolitan Medical Response System Program Contract Deliverables -- F Scenarios and Discussion Materials for Use on Site Visits.

Sommario/riassunto

The committee was established in the autumn of 2000 to study the feasibility of expanding the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team model established in Washington, DC and neighboring counties into a national program to respond to a mass-casualty terrorism incident. The attacks of September 2001 accelerated their effort and moved it from more theoretical to more concrete realms. The report is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR