Last month, as the authorities in southern California were dousing the remnants of the Cedar and San Bernardino wildfires there, residents of Berkeley's Holiday City West development assembled to hear Mr. Schultz, the township's head of wildfire preparedness, describe plans for a prescribed burn along the wooded perimeters of their community.
This manuscript describes the application of a stroke preparedness behavioral intervention and includes baseline information in a multi-ethnic population of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) survivors.
Each UNICEF zone office has its own emergency preparedness plan for each year which describes the minimum target population under the response plan for any emergency.
She describes her rise as a combination of luck and preparedness.
In April 2000, the then president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, described three levels of preparedness for the games: green, meaning all was well; yellow, indicating serious problems; and red, where the games were "in danger".
In fact, Andreessen's firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is trying to prep its portfolio companies for an exit by establishing what he described as an IPO preparedness team that's working with founders on what's required to go public, from accounting and legal, to building a governance team, to selecting the right CFO.
Considering the described containment strategy in preparedness plans would shift their focus to identifying potential highly infectious individuals and to preparing for pre-emptive vaccination of a pre-selected fraction of the population.
By qualitative content analysis of the text, four categories of themes (existential, emotional, preparedness, mistrust) describing negative thoughts and four categories (existential, relief, support, surgical care) for positive thoughts were identified.
Under the guidance of the World Health Organization (WHO), 41 nations have developed pandemic preparedness plans describing the role different organizations will play when confronted with an influenza pandemic [ European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS) 2007; Mounier-Jack et al. 2007].
Additionally, network members have served as expert consultants for various WHO, ECDC, and other infectious disease surveillance activities conducted in the SEE region, such as the pandemic preparedness assessments described in Text Box 1.
