Abstract
The World Health Organization warns that a flu pandemic is inevitable, and possibly imminent. Barnett and colleagues discuss a tool called the Haddon Matrix that could help in pandemic influenza planning.
Highlights
The prospect of a pandemic with avian influenza is an urgent concern for public health leaders worldwide [1]
The high rates of infection with the pandemic virus meant that even an average case fatality rate lower than 3% resulted in this large number of deaths [13,15]
We identified factors that may be associated with opportunities for public health intervention, and marked these factors in bold within the matrix
Summary
Current international plans [18,22], Citation: Barnett DJ, Balicer RD, Lucey DR, Everly GS Jr, Omer SB, et al (2005) A systematic analytic approach to pandemic influenza preparedness planning. Barnett is at the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. Balicer is in the Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel. Jr., is at the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. Omer is in the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. All aspects of all authors’ work were independent of the funding source
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