Public Health Emergency 1
Public Health Emergency 1 :
“`Public health emergencies’ have been defined by Burkle (2007) 111 as those `that adversely impact the public health system and/or its protective 111 Burkle, F. M., Jr. 2007. “Public health emergencies, cancer, and the legacy of Katrina”. Prehospital Disaster Medicine, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 291–292. infrastructure (i.e., water, sanitation, shelter, food, and health), resulting in both direct and indirect consequences to the health of a population, and occur when this protective threshold is absent, destroyed, overwhelmed, not recovered or maintained, or denied to populations’”. (Quoted in Altevogt, et al. (Editors). Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems: A Letter Report, Jan 2008, 13)
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