title: Turning point sets the stage for emergency preparedness planning.
abstract: Nearly a billion dollars were made available to state health departments through federal grants in the spring of 2002 for public health emergency preparedness plans. Twenty-one states had already been participating for some years in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Turning Point Initiative. This article illustrates how earlier practice and experience in developing cross-sector collaborations and institutionalizing a model of broad-based partnerships for public health decision making can increase effectiveness and efficiency in responding to a call for action around an emergency.
authors.affiliation: Turning Point National Program Office, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, 6 Nickerson Street, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
authors.forename: Betty
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bekemeier
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dahl
mesh_terms: D023482:Bioterrorism; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005582:Foundations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000379:methods*; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States