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Preparedness 3.0: Addressing the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2015

Georges C. Benjamin
Georges C. Benjamin*
Affiliation:
American Public Health Association, Washington, DC.
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Correspondence and reprint requests to Georges Benjamin, MD, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC (e-mail: georges.benjamin@apha.org).
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Abstract

The last 14 years has taught us that that we are facing a new reality; a reality in which public health emergencies are a common occurrence. Today, we live in a world with dangerous people without state sponsorship who are an enormous threat to our safety; one where emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are waiting to break out; a world where the benefits of globalization in trade, transportation, and social media brings threats to our communities faster and with a greater risk than ever before. Even climate change has entered into the preparedness equation, bringing with it the forces of nature in the form of extreme weather and its complications. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:728–729)

Keywords

risk managementclimate changebioterrorismpublic healthhealth care economics and organizations
Type
Commentaries
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , December 2015 , pp. 728 - 729
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2015 

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