Strengthening National Public Health Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Biological and Radiological Agent Threats: v. 20 (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics) - Hardcover

9781586037444: Strengthening National Public Health Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Biological and Radiological Agent Threats: v. 20 (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586037447 ISBN 13: 9781586037444

Publisher: IOS Press,US, 2007

Ensuring a coordinated public health, laboratory, and medical response to a natural disaster, an accidental release or a deliberate use of a chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) agent is a high priority for all countries. This publication contains the proceedings of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Advanced Study Institute (ASI). The ASI, and this publication provides NATO and its allies with ways to enhance their national preparedness and response plans to CBR threats.The recommendations should be of interest to clinicians, researchers, and other scientists motivated by special interest in public health preparedness, as well as by national and NATO leaders and policy makers who are positioned to make a difference. Public health response to emergencies requires extensive, coordinated, considered efforts of the combined military and civilian public health resources of all NATO nations and NATO Partner nations.

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