CDC Report Released-- “Public Health Preparedness-- 2011 State-by-State Update on Laboratory Capabilities and Response Readiness Planning”

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image"Public Health Preparedness: 2011 State-by-State Update on Laboratory Capabilities and Response Readiness Planning," is the latest report by the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response that evaluates the nation’s ability to respond to public health emergencies such as disease outbreaks and natural disasters. This report focuses on public health laboratories, which are critical for identifying and understanding health threats and disease outbreaks, and response readiness planning, which enables communities to efficiently distribute medicines and other supplies received from CDC’s Strategic National Stockpile during a public health emergency. The report compares recent data to past data indicating national improvements in these two preparedness capabilities.

- http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/09/cdc-report-highlights-progress-in-nations-public-health-preparedness.aspx

The CDC’s description of this report can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/pubs-links/2011/ 

For CDC’s guidance on “Coping With a Disaster or Traumatic Event”, see http://emergency.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/

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