Public health response to methanol mass poisoning in the Czech Republic in 2012: a case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 29-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Šejvl ◽  
Miroslav Barták ◽  
Beáta Gavurová ◽  
Miroslava Mašlániová ◽  
Benjamin Petruželka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Health Response

scholarly journals Government response to COVID-19 in the Czech Republic: February–July 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Olga Löblová
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Isolate System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The Czech Republic initially managed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus remarkably, with relatively few cases and low death rate. Its public health response was characterized by swift implementation of public health measures driven by an implicit precautionary principle, but also chaotic communication of measures and a lack of transparency in justifying individual policies. June and July 2020 have seen a rise in COVID-19 cases linked to two regional clusters but later associated with community transmission, which exposed weaknesses in the country’s test-trace-isolate system.

Tracking antimicrobials dispensed during an anthrax attack: A case study from the New Hampshire anthrax exercise

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Jeanne Tropper, MS, MPH ◽  
Chris Adamski, RN, MSN ◽  
Cynthia Vinion, MEA ◽  
Sanjeeb Sapkota, MBBS, MPH
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Health Response

The Countermeasure and Response Administration (CRA) system is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informatics application developed to track countermeasures, including medical interventions (eg, vaccinations and pharmaceuticals) and nonmedical interventions (eg, patient isolation, quarantine, and personal protective equipment), administered during a public health response. This case study follows the use of CRA as a supplement to paper-based processes during an exercise in which antimicrobials dispensed to individual exposed persons were captured after a simulated bioterrorist attack of anthrax spores. The exercise was conducted by the New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services on April 14, 2007.Automated systems like CRA can track when medications are dispensed. The data can then be used for performance metrics, statistics, and in locating victims for follow-up study. Given that this case study was limited to a single location in a relatively rural setting, the authors concluded that more study is needed to compare the feasibility of using an automated system rather than paper-based processes for effectively managing a very large-scale urgent public health response.

scholarly journals Using Convergent Sequential Design for Rapid Complex Case Study Descriptions: Example of Public Health Briefings During the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl N. Poth ◽  
Okan Bulut ◽  
Alexandra M. Aquilina ◽  
Simon J. G. Otto
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Complex Case ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Complex Phenomena

AbstractConceptualizing the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic response as a complex adaptive system is useful to study its key features of emergence, interdependency, and adaptation yet practical guidance for mixed methods researchers remains limited. This study contributes an illustrative example and discussion for guiding how a mixed methods convergent sequential research design, informed by complexity theory and drawing upon open-access datasets, can rapidly generate complex case study descriptions. This article serves as an essential reference for identifying points of integration within a sequential convergent design using text mining to manage large data volumes and studying complex phenomena using a complexity-informed case study-mixed methods approach to generate novel public health insights.

scholarly journals The public health response during and after the Lac-Mégantic train derailment tragedy: a case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mélissa Généreux ◽  
Geneviève Petit ◽  
Danielle Maltais ◽  
Mathieu Roy ◽  
Robert Simard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Train Derailment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Response
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