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 American
Red Cross Disaster Supplies Kit
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)
U.S. Nursing Home and
Hospital Facilities