Preparing the Health System to Respond to Ebola Virus Disease in New York City, 2014

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 370-374

  Varma, Jay K ^a,b   Prezant, David J ^c   Wilson, Ross ^d   Quinn, Celia ^a,b   Asaeda, Glenn ^c   Cagliuso, Nicholas V ^d   Rakeman, Jennifer L ^a   Raphael, Marisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Government of New york   (United States)

^d NYC Health + Hospitals Jacobi   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster planning; emergency preparedness; health policy; health services; infectious disease medicine

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PLANNING; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NEW YORK; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY;

EID: 84994134049     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2016.132     Document Type: Review

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