Report Finds Economic Crisis Hurting U.S. Preparedness for Health Emergencies
Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism finds that progress made to better protect the country from disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and bioterrorism is now at risk, due to budget cuts and the economic crisis. Released by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the sixth annual Ready or Not? concludes that major gaps remain in many critical areas of preparedness, including surge capacity, rapid disease detection, and food safety. http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/product.jsp?id=36628 [posted on RWJF Content Alerts]

The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine
Evaluating the Emergency Care Environment State by State 2009
American College of Emergency Physicians
http://www.emreportcard.org/uploadedFiles/ACEP-ReportCard-10-22-08.pdf.pdf

The Problem of Measuring Emergency Preparedness: The Need for Assessing ”Response Reliability” as Part of Homeland Security Planning
Brian A. Jackson
Rand Occassional Paper
http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/
Scroll down through the 2008 publications to find the link to the PDF file.

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