Strategic National Stockpile program: implications for military medicine.
The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) program, managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, is designed to deliver critical medical resources to the site of a national emergency. A recent interagency agreement between the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services indicates that military medical treatment facility commanders should be actively engaged in cooperative planning with local and state public health officials, so that reception, storage, distribution, and dispensing of SNS materials as a consequence of an actual event could occur without disruption or delay. This article describes the SNS program and discusses issues of relevance to medical treatment facility commanders and Department of Defense medical planners and logisticians.
Need
James T
JT
Battelle Memorial Institute, Hampton, VA 23669-4054, USA.
Mothershead
Jerry L
JL
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D001694:Biological Warfare; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D002618:Chemical Warfare; D002959:Civil Defense / Q000458:organization & administration; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D032541:Mass Vaccination / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008923:Missouri; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011635:Public Health Administration; D014481:United States; D037041:United States Government Agencies; D014612:Vaccines / Q000600:supply & distribution*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D014612:Vaccines