Abstract
Development of Occupational Health Measures for the National Health Security Preparedness Index.
Highlights
To the best of our knowledge, the National Health Security Preparedness Index (NHSPI) is the only tool currently available to measure the preparedness of each of the states in the U.S The index is calculated based on values assigned to 194 measures that are believed to influence six broad domains of national health security [15, 16]
On reviewing the environmental and occupational health domain of the index, we found that only measures of environmental health were included; there are no indicators of occupational health and safety [17]
As the NHSPI gets revised in the future, we hope objective measures of occupational health and safety would be considered
Summary
The 2001 World Trade Center and 2005 Hurricane disasters, and the 2014 Ebola outbreak were major events that tasked the United States’ public health emergency preparedness and response apparatus. We believe future evaluation of national preparedness and response level should consider objective occupational health and safety metrics. Evidence-based evaluation of national public health programs is critical to their future success [13].
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