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Better Prepare Than React: Reordering Public Health Priorities 100 Years After the Spanish Flu Epidemic

Author(s) -

Michael Greenberger

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2018.304682

Subject(s) - pandemic , quarantine , economic shortage , public health , outbreak , public health interventions , psychological intervention , environmental health , covid-19 , medicine , virology , nursing , infectious disease (medical specialty) , government (linguistics) , disease , linguistics , philosophy , pathology

This commentary argues that 100 years after the deadly Spanish flu, the public health emergency community's responses to much more limited pandemics and outbreaks demonstrate a critical shortage of personnel and resources. Rather than relying on nonpharmaceutical interventions, such as quarantine, the United States must reorder its health priorities to ensure adequate preparation for a large-scale pandemic.

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