
Inoculating Cities
Case Studies of Urban Pandemic Preparedness
Description
Key Features
- Offers a global scope and perspective - inclusive of multiple cities, geographies, and infectious disease outbreaks
- Provides in-depth case studies of successful models of urban pandemic preparedness which consist of a brief overview of a city, a brief description of an outbreak or disease burden, and an examination of the unique or innovative capacity that a city used to successfully address the health threat
- Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts and researchers from around the world with first-hand experiences preparing for, detecting, and responding to infectious disease outbreaks
Readership
Researchers, academics, and professionals in global and public health (public health planners and official particularly at the municipal levels), public policy specialists, urban municipal leaders, researchers and professionals in infectious disease, epidemiology, and city planning and other adjacent professional fields
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Controlling Dengue, an Urban Pandemic - a case study of Delhi, India
3. The 2019 Measles outbreak in Clark County, Washington
4. Municipal Healthcare Delivery Special Pathogens Preparedness and Response in the City that Never Sleeps: The NYC Health + Hospitals’ Approach to the 2018-2019 Measles Outbreak and Other Infectious Disease Threats
5. The Cleveland Ebola Incident Response
6. Preparedness planning for re-emergent smallpox in differing high income cities - Phoenix, USA and Sydney, Australia
7. Assessing city-level capacity for urban epidemic preparedness and response
8. Developing a more effective locally led response to the HIV epidemic in Blantyre, Malawi
9. Building robust interface between public health authority and medical institutions in a densely populated city: State-of-the-art integrated pandemic and emerging disease preparedness in the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan
10. The translational flow of data: Using science, technology, and data analytics to combat the spread of disease between and within cities
11. After Action Reviews as a Best Practice Tool for Evaluating the Response to Urban Disease Outbreaks in Nigeria
12. Development of Emergency Operation Centers in Myanmar
13. Preparedness through Simulation: Urban Outbreak 2019
14. The Role of Private Sector in Urban Health Security
15. Conclusion
Product details
- No. of pages: 270
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: June 24, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128202043
- eBook ISBN: 9780128204320