Medical countermeasures dispensing
Subtitle: emergency use authorization and the postal model : workshop summary
By: Clare Stroud, Lori Nadig, and Bruce M. Altevogt, rapporteurs ; Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; National Academies Press (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9780309158039
Subjects: Emergency management; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Public health; Disasters; Emergencies; Planning; Congresses; Disaster medicine; Public Health; Supply & distribution
Description: "During public health emergencies such as terrorist attacks or influenza outbreaks, the public health system's ability to save lives could depend on dispensing medical countermeasures such as antibiotics, antiviral medications, and vaccines to a large number of people in a short amount of time. The IOM's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events held a workshop on November 18, 2009, to provide an overview of current threats, recent progress made in the public health system for distributing and dispensing countermeasures, and remaining vulnerabilities."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57).

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Medical countermeasures distribution and dispensing in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic; title: Emergency use authorization; title: The postal model; title: Conclusion.