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Public engagement on facilitating access to antiviral medications and information in an influenza pandemic : workshop series summary

Title
Public engagement on facilitating access to antiviral medications and information in an influenza pandemic : workshop series summary / Barbara Fain, Kristin Viswanathan, and Bruce M. Altevogt, Rapporteurs ; Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Board on Health Sciences Policy, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Author
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events.
Publication
Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Fain, Barbara.
  • Viswanathan, Kristin.
  • Altevogt, Bruce M.
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy.
Description
xiv, 42 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Influenza pandemics overwhelm health care systems with thousands or hundreds of thousands of sick patients, as well as those worried they may be sick. In order to ensure a successful response to the patient swell caused by a pandemic, robust planning is essential to prepare for challenges public health officials may face. This includes the need to quickly distribute and dispense antiviral medications that can reduce the severity and duration of disease to large numbers of people. In response to a request from the Centers for Disease Control, the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events held a series of workshops that explored the public's perception of how to facilitate access to antiviral medications and treatment during an influenza pandemic. To help inform potential strategies still in the development stages at the CDC, workshops were held in Fort Benton, Montana; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Los Angeles, California during February and March 2012 to consider the usefulness of several alternative strategies of delivering antiviral medication to the public. Participants considered how the normal systems for prescribing and dispensing antiviral medications could be adjusted to ensure that the public has quick, safe, and equitable access to both potentially life-saving drugs and information about the pandemic and treatment options. This document summarizes the workshops."--Publisher's description.
Subject
  • Influenza > United States > Epidemiology
  • Influenza > Vaccination > United States
  • Influenza > Prevention
  • Antiviral agents
  • Epidemics > Prevention
  • Antiviral Agents
  • Influenza > Epidemiology
  • Influenza > Vaccination
  • United States
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in an electronic version.
Contents
Introduction -- Description of the "community conversations" -- Session summaries -- Discussion -- Final remarks.
ISBN
  • 9780309256940
  • 0309256941
LCCN
  • 2008298577
  • 10.17226/13404
OCLC
  • ocn802290092
  • 802290092
  • SCSB-1665328
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library