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A toolkit to assess Medical Reserve Corps units' performanceElena Savoia
Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness, Landmark Center, 3rd Floor E, 401 Park Dr, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 4:213-9. 2010..This study aimed to develop a toolkit for MRC coordinators to assess and monitor volunteer units' performance and identify barriers limiting volunteerism...- Inter-agency communication and operations capabilities during a hospital functional exercise: reliability and validity of a measurement toolElena Savoia
Center for Public Health Preparedness, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Prehosp Disaster Med 25:52-8. 2010..The purpose of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of a qualitative performance assessment tool designed to measure hospitals' communication and operational capabilities during a functional exercise... - Public health emergency preparedness at the local level: results of a national surveyElena Savoia
Center for Public Health Preparedness, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 44:1909-24. 2009..To study the relationship between elements of public health infrastructure and local public health emergency preparedness (PHEP)... - Public health systems research in emergency preparedness: a review of the literatureElena Savoia
Center for Public Health Preparedness, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Prev Med 37:150-6. 2009..The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic literature review in order to identify and characterize the PHSR literature produced in the U.S. in the past 11 years in the field of public health emergency preparedness... - Impact of tabletop exercises on participants' knowledge of and confidence in legal authorities for infectious disease emergenciesElena Savoia
Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 3:104-10. 2009.... - Assessing public health capabilities during emergency preparedness tabletop exercises: reliability and validity of a measurement toolElena Savoia
Center for Public Health Preparedness, Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 124:138-48. 2009..The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable self-assessment performance measurement tool for tabletop exercise participants... - Risk-communication capability for public health emergencies varies by community diversityElena Savoia
Center for Public Health Preparedness, Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
BMC Res Notes 1:6. 2008..This study explores the relationship between risk-communication capabilities, as perceived by public officials participating in emergency tabletop exercises, and community size and diversity... - Assessing the construct validity of the Italian version of the EQ-5D: preliminary results from a cross-sectional study in North ItalyElena Savoia
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy
Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:47. 2006..For this reason instruments such as the SF-12 and EQ-5D have been widely proposed as assessment tools to monitor changes in HR-QOL in general populations and very recently in general practice settings as well.. - On linkages: using exercises to identify systems-level preparedness challengesPaul D Biddinger
Center for Public Health Prepadness (CPHP, Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 123:96-101. 2008 - Public health emergency preparedness exercises: lessons learnedPaul D Biddinger
Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness, 677 Huntington Ave, Landmark Center, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 125:100-6. 2010.... - Emergency medical consequence planning and management for national special security events after September 11: Boston 2004Kristy A Kade
Center for Public Health Preparedness, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2:166-73. 2008..Lessons learned from enhanced medical planning for the 2004 DNC may serve as an effective model for future mass gathering events... - "Operation Helping Hands": Massachusetts health and medical response to Hurricane KatrinaSuzanne Condon
Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Prehosp Disaster Med 25:80-6. 2010..Operation Helping Hands represents the largest medical response to evacuees in recent Massachusetts history... - Development of a survey instrument to measure connectivity to evaluate national public health preparedness and response performanceBarry C Dorn
Program on Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Dr, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Rep 122:329-38. 2007..To focus evaluation on the latter, we evaluated the linkages among individuals, organizations, and systems using the construct of "connectivity" and developed a measurement instrument... - Persistent geographical disparities in infant mortality rates in Italy (1999-2001): comparison with France, England, Germany, and PortugalMaria Pia Fantini
Department of Medicine, Public Health, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy
Eur J Public Health 16:429-32. 2006..Infant mortality rate (IMR) is used as a population health indicator. We provide an updated description of temporal and geographical trends of IMR in Italy...