Periods of major unrest or high magnitude (explosive) eruptive events have, in the past, prompted assembly of multidisciplinary response teams to support small groups charged with tracking the event.
The Child Sexual Abuse Public Policy Project and Multidisciplinary Response Protocol found that, on average, each child victim had to tell his or her story to eight different people.
Even fewer STI outbreaks get reported to public health authorities and result in a multidisciplinary response.
For instance, a multidisciplinary response team including experienced physicians or nurses and effective hospital bed management could be beneficial.
This has been attributed to prophylactic oxytocic administration, and the swift and skilled multidisciplinary response to a haemorrhage once it has been recognised [ 7].
In analyzing AMPATH's response to the crisis a key factor in the success of the response was the organization's ability to rapidly establish a multidisciplinary response team.
A multidisciplinary response team was convened to perform a structured risk assessment, perform risk classification of contacts, issue guidelines for follow-up, provide information, and monitor the crisis response.
Regarding the role of the health sector, the Law states that health services should be aware of possible cases of violence, manage them, and engage in a multidisciplinary response in coordination with other institutions and sectors.
We used the multidisciplinary response and rapid implementation of process changes based on Lean methods at the provincial public health laboratory in British Columbia, Canada, to improve laboratory surge capacity in the 2009 influenza pandemic.
This indicates not only difficulties for an effective multidisciplinary response to STI outbreaks in many instances, but also that a common conceptual framework of how to cooperate with public health authorities in STI outbreaks does not currently exist in Wales.
Two relatively large surveys were conducted to understand how data are treated by scientists across different disciplines: by the PARSE.Insight project [ 60], with 1202 respondents, and by Science Magazine [ 61], with 1700 respondents, both with multidisciplinary international responses.
