Public Engagement on Facilitating Access to Antiviral Medications and Information in an Influenza Pandemic - Workshop Series Summary (Paperback)

Influenza pandemics overwhelm health care systems with thousands or hundreds of thousands of sick patients, as well as those worried they may be sick. In order to ensure a successful response to the patient swell caused by a pandemic, robust planning is essential to prepare for challenges public health officials may face. This includes the need to quickly distribute and dispense antiviral medications that can reduce the severity and duration of disease to large numbers of people. In response to a request from the Centers for Disease Control, the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events held a series of workshops that explored the public's perception of how to facilitate access to antiviral medications and treatment during an influenza pandemic. To help inform potential strategies still in the development stages at the CDC, workshops were held in Fort Benton, Montana; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Los Angeles, California during February and March 2012 to consider the usefulness of several alternative strategies of delivering antiviral medication to the public. Participants considered how the normal systems for prescribing and dispensing antiviral medications could be adjusted to ensure that the public has quick, safe, and equitable access to both potentially life-saving drugs and information about the pandemic and treatment options. This document summarizes the workshops. Table of Contents Front Matter Introduction and Workshop Series Summary Appendix: Recruitment Flyer

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Institute of Medicine • Board on Health Sciences Policy • Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events
Editors:	Bruce M Altevogt • Kristin Viswanathan • Barbara Fain
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	56
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-25694-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > General
LSN:	0-309-25694-1
Barcode:	9780309256940

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