Terrorism and Public Health: A balanced approach to strengthening systems and protecting people
Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel
Abstract
This book addresses terrorism and public health, and presents a balanced approach to strengthening systems and protecting people. It provides up-to-date, science-based expert information on, and a systematic practical approach to a wide range of relevant public health issues as they relate to terrorism. The book is designed to assist public health workers and others in responding to terrorist attacks and reducing and preventing threats of future terrorism; and reducing or preventing inappropriate or dysfunctional responses to the threats of future terrorism. Part I describes the public health ... More
This book addresses terrorism and public health, and presents a balanced approach to strengthening systems and protecting people. It provides up-to-date, science-based expert information on, and a systematic practical approach to a wide range of relevant public health issues as they relate to terrorism. The book is designed to assist public health workers and others in responding to terrorist attacks and reducing and preventing threats of future terrorism; and reducing or preventing inappropriate or dysfunctional responses to the threats of future terrorism. Part I describes the public health response to 9/11 and its aftermath. Part II describes terrorist weapons and their use. Part III describes, in practical detail, the challenges and opportunities that terrorism presents to public health.
Keywords:
9/11,
terrorist weapons,
education,
research,
public health practice,
health policy,
civil rights,
war on terror
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195325256 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325256.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Barry S. Levy, editor
Tufts University, School of Medicine, and Independent Consultant
Victor W. Sidel, editor
Albert Einstein Medical College
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