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Quarantine stations at ports of entry : protecting the public's health

Title
Quarantine stations at ports of entry : protecting the public's health / Committee on Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan for U.S. Ports of Entry, Board on Global Health, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice ; Laura B. Sivitz, Kathleen Stratton, and Georges C. Benjamin, editors.
Author
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan for U.S. Ports of Entry.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Sivitz, Laura.
  • Stratton, Kathleen R.
  • Benjamin, Georges.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
  • National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Description
xvii, 314 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
Subjects
Note
  • "This study was supported by Contract No. 200-2000-00629, Task Order No. 31 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Context and content of the CDC quarantine station expansion plan -- 3. Today's CDC quarantine stations at U.S. ports of entry -- 4. Bridge from present to future : vision and recommendations -- App. A. Human resources at U.S. ports of entry to protect the public's health : interim letter report -- App. B. Agendas of open sessions of committee meetings -- App. C. Methodology used by the division of global migration and quarantine to select sites for new quarantine stations -- App. D. Commissioned paper on US seaports and the CDC quarantine station system -- App. E. Microbial threats of public health significance originating in animals or animal products at U.S. ports of entry -- App. F. International legal considerations for the quarantine station expansion -- App. G. Excerpts from a standard memorandum of agreement between CDC and local hospitals.
ISBN
030909951X (pbk. book)
LCCN
  • 2005033697
  • 9780309099516
OCLC
  • ocm61457549
  • SCSB-5232013
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries