Improving public health preparedness capacity measurement: Development of the local health department preparedness capacities assessment survey

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 578-584

  Davis, Mary V ^a   Mays, Glen P ^b   Bellamy, James ^b   Bevc, Christine A ^a   Marti, Cammie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument development; Preparedness measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; DELPHI STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CAPACITY BUILDING; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DISASTER PLANNING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NORTH CAROLINA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896548418     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2013.108     Document Type: Article

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