Enhancing medical and public health capabilities during times of crisis.
Terrorist attacks and other catastrophic events will create demands that severely challenge the capacity of the medical/public health system. To meet the surge, a cadre of professionals should be trained to operate around the nucleus of medical/public health officials. At New York University, an inter-institutional team is considering specific roles for and an approach to training dentists to enable these health care professionals to supplement medical/public surge needs based upon informatics systems that provide critical information.
Psoter
Walter J
WJ
Triola
Marc M
MM
Morse
Douglas E
DE
Rekow
E Dianne
ED
D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D003815:Dentists; D004189:Disaster Planning; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011634:Public Health; D023481:Terrorism; D014481:United States