Open AccessScience as the Basis of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Practice: The Slow but Crucial Evolution
Author(s) -
Eric G. Carbone,
Erin Thomas
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.2018.304702
Subject(s) - preparedness , public health , general partnership , public relations , emergency management , emergency response , political science , face (sociological concept) , medicine , engineering ethics , sociology , nursing , medical emergency , engineering , social science , law
We discuss challenges to implementing evidence-based practice within the broad field of public health preparedness and response. We discuss the progress of public health preparedness and response in building and translating evidence to practice since the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11/2001. We briefly describe analogies to struggles that other professional disciplines face, and we highlight key factors that facilitate and impede the implementation of evidence-based practice. We recommend a partnership led by funding agencies and closely involving research organizations and professional associations as a means to ensure that the public health preparedness and response field continues to develop an evidence-based culture and practice.