E-grāmata: Bioterrorism in Medical and Healthcare Administration

Paquette (Lakehead U., Ontario) explains to health and medical services administrators and health professionals engaged in the emergency planning process how to cope with the increased threat of bioterrorism identified so prominently in the mass media. The first part sets out how to analyze events of significance to the management, how to control responses to bioterrorism, how to develop counterstrategies in case they prove necessary and what tactics are mostly likely to be useful in that process, and in-house training and planning with worksheets. The second part presents six semi-fictional case studies on a hypothetical bioterrorist attack; hospital plans; and cases in which the situation is being dealt with by a state, an independent international organization, a country, and an international organization of states. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Offering procedures and templates to prepare and implement a coordinated response to high-alert situations, this reference elucidates an efficient method to identify, manage, and control transformations in the provision of health services during elevated levels of bioterrorist threat. The author outlines procedures for training personnel, maintaining working relationships among various groups, and coping with the threat of bioweaponry. He explains how to conduct strategic and tactical analyses to determine and control health service operation. The book provides tools for change useful to anyone inside or outside the health care system, at any level, and in a unit of any size.


Bioterrorism in Medical and Healthcare Administration provides an efficient method to identify, manage, and control transformations in the provision of health services during elevated levels of bioterrorist threat - offering step-by-step procedures and templates to prepare and implement a coordinated response to high-alert situations. This reference proposes an efficient method to identify, manage, and control transformations in the provision of health services during elevated levels of bioterrorist threat - offering step-by-step procedures and templates to prepare and implement a coordinated response to high-alert situations.