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American Red Cross Disaster Supplies Kit
American Red Cross Family Disaster Planning
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals
Description: AMA's Center
for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response provides tools for
healthcare professionals to train for and deal with disaster response. Links to
a formal training program, links to related AMA policies, physician resources,
and frequently asked questions.
Sponsor: American Medical
Association
American
Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals
Description: Disaster news
releases, provider and patient education and information, treatment guidelines,
and links to other disaster resources.
Sponsor: American Society
of Health-System Pharmacists
Association for Professionals in Infection
Control and Epidemiology
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals
Description: Includes
links to education, government advocacy, practice guidelines and publications. Resources, references, response planning guides,
management recommendations, epidemiology, and economic impact tools.
Disease-specific sections include news releases, and related medical
literature.
Sponsor: Association for
Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals
Description: Site provides
information on bioterrorism agents, diseases, other threats,
including natural disasters; contains many links to emergency resources.
Sponsor: Department of
Health and Human Services
Also see Bird Flu Information on this site.
FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research, Drug Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals
Description: Website lists
many links to help prepare for possible bioterrorism attacks, including
information about drugs and vaccines that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.
Sponsor:
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Target audience: Consumers
Description: Website
includes information about emergency personnel, resources and education and
training; along with several links on emergency management.
Sponsor:
Immunofacts - The Immunization Gateway
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals
Description: An update to
the print reference, provides
information on vaccines and immunologic drugs. Contains guidelines and laws for vaccinations, links to government
websites, current topics such as bioterrorism, links to pharmaceutical
companies, vaccine advocacy organizations and adverse effect reporting.
Also has links to journals and statistical information and provides information
for vaccines in elderly and in pregnancy.
Medline Plus: BioDefense & BioTerrorism
Target audience: Healthcare
professionals
Description: Website lists
many links to help prepare for possible bioterrorism attacks, including
information about drugs and vaccines that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.
Sponsor:
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals
Description: Provides
guidelines for use in treatment of various disease states, including
bioterrorism. Guidelines indexed alphabetically in a format searchable by key
word and disease state. Site is updated periodically.
Sponsor: Joint venture
between Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Target audience: Consumers
Description: Provides
news, planning at all levels, tracking, terms, alerts, and link to a public
service announcement. Site is updated periodically.
Sponsor: Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS)
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Target audience:
Healthcare professionals, consumers
Description: Site provides
several links under each of the following topics of counterterrorism: general
information, public health preparedness, food security, biological agents,
anthrax information and smallpox information.
Sponsor: Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention
Medline
Plus: BioDefense & BioTerrorism
U.S. Nursing Home and
Hospital Facilities