Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

DOI

10.2202/1547-7355.1596

Publication Title

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Volume

6

Issue

1

Pages

20 pp.

Abstract

The development of effective and reliable methods to defend the nation against biological terrorism remains an urgent challenge to researchers in the areas of risk, bio-defense, public health, and emergency medicine. The emerging threat of the avian flu pandemic also highlights the unpreparedness of our nation's health care system to meet a highly contagious and infectious disease outbreak. The implementation of a rapid sensor technology for early detection of influenza-like-illness provides possible opportunities, as well as problems. Bounding and defining such a complex problem is one of the first challenges this research addresses. Approaching this problem from various perspectives such as risk management, critical infrastructures and emergency medicine proves to be a valid strategy for an efficient solution. After defining the problem and laying out a strategy, discussions on possible tools and techniques for the solution of the problem is presented in this paper, together with the compounding sources of and issues with complexity.

Comments

© 2009 Walter De Gruyter GmbH

Publisher's version available at: https://doi.org/10.2202/1547-7355.1596

Original Publication Citation

Pinto, C. A., & Bozkurt, I. (2009). Rapid sensor technology: A risk and system complexity analyses of early detection of influenza-like-illnesses. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 6(1), 20 pp., Article 86. https://doi.org/10.2202/1547-7355.1596

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