Better Prepare Than React: Reordering Public Health Priorities 100 Years After the Spanish Flu Epidemic.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304682 and PMC identifier 6187800.
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Abstract
This commentary argues that 100 years after the deadly Spanish flu, the public health emergency community's responses to much more limited pandemics and outbreaks demonstrate a critical shortage of personnel and resources. Rather than relying on nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as quarantine, the United States must reorder its health priorities to ensure adequate preparation for a large-scale pandemic.
Medical subject headings
- Communicable Disease Control
- Disease Outbreaks
- Global Health
- Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
- Public Health Practice