Integrating public health and medical intelligence gathering into homeland security fusion centres.
J Bus Contin Emer Plan
; 6(2): 174-9, 2012.
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ABSTRACT
Homeland security fusion centres serve to gather, analyse and share threat-related information among all levels of governments and law enforcement agencies. In order to function effectively, fusion centres must employ people with the necessary competencies to understand the nature of the threat facing a community, discriminate between important information and irrelevant or merely interesting facts and apply domain knowledge to interpret the results to obviate or reduce the existing danger. Public health and medical sector personnel routinely gather, analyse and relay health-related inform-ation, including health security risks, associated with the detection of suspicious biological or chemical agents within a community to law enforcement agencies. This paper provides a rationale for the integration of public health and medical personnel in fusion centres and describes their role in assisting law enforcement agencies, public health organisations and the medical sector to respond to natural or intentional threats against local communities, states or the nation as a whole.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Administração em Saúde Pública
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Defesa Civil
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Planejamento em Desastres
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Serviços Médicos de Emergência
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Relações Interinstitucionais
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Bus Contin Emer Plan
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA DE EMERGENCIA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos