The case is designed both to facilitate discussion about the ways in which emergency preparedness overlaps with political considerations, and to highlight the nature of inter-governmental relations in the American system.
We apply a longitudinal research design in which we measure future preparedness in 2008 and its impact on firm performance in 2015.
In the BBC interview in which she indicated her preparedness to "listen" to the prime minister on military intervention, she also said that she "remained unconvinced" about the legality of such an action.
Develop a family preparedness plan in which you decide where to go if at home, school, work, outside or in a car when floodwaters rise.
Steve Coll has more on that story; Nick Paumgarten, by coincidence, also has a Talk of the Town story in this week's issue (it went to press Friday night) in which he asks a disaster-preparedness expert what to do if a much larger bomb — say, a ten kiloton atomic one — was detonated on Wall Street.
We report here results from a three year study analysing whether public health laws across the European Union, Croatia, Turkey, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are 'fit for purpose', whether they are coherent with states' strategic national preparedness plans, ways in which laws differ and whether these differences are likely to be important from a public health perspective.
Preparedness is the phase in which actions are taken in advance of a disaster.
The likely reason that female natural hazard preparedness decision makers are considered to have lower preparedness levels than male decision makers is because the relational activities that females think are important and thus activities in which females are likely to engage are not among the preparedness activities listed in nearly all studies.
Pandemic influenza preparedness exercises should include scenarios in which issues specific to pregnant women require attention.
The Times printed an internal memo in which Dr. Richard J. Hatchett, chief medical officer for the department's biodefense preparedness unit, called the markup "outrageous".
