1. Logistics modelling: improving resource management and public information strategies in Florida.
- Author
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Walsh DM, Van Groningen C, and Craig B
- Subjects
- Florida, Health Resources organization & administration, Humans, Information Dissemination, Models, Organizational, Organizational Case Studies, Anthrax prevention & control, Bioterrorism, Disaster Planning, Post-Exposure Prophylaxis organization & administration, Workflow
- Abstract
One of the most time-sensitive and logistically-challenging emergency response operations today is to provide mass prophylaxis to every man, woman and child in a community within 48 hours of a bioterrorism attack. To meet this challenge, federal, state and local public health departments in the USA have joined forces to develop, test and execute large-scale bioterrorism response plans. This preparedness and response effort is funded through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Cities Readiness Initiative, a programme dedicated to providing oral antibiotics to an entire population within 48 hours of a weaponised inhalation anthrax attack. This paper will demonstrate how the State of Florida used a logistics modelling tool to improve its CRI mass prophylaxis plans. Special focus will be on how logistics modelling strengthened Florida's resource management policies and validated its public information strategies.
- Published
- 2011