Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

DOI

10.3389/fpubh.2016.00079

Publication Title

Frontiers in Public Health

Volume

4

Issue

79

Pages

1-3

Abstract

[First paragraph] 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. The health and economic cost of these events is huge including over 4000 deaths and damages to infrastructure worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Unfortunately, the U.S. labor force was disproportionately affected (1–4). Similar public health impact of other disasters on workers has also been reported. In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, for instance, approximately 75% of those who developed acute health effects and sought medical care were clean-up workers (5).

Comments

Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

ORCID

0000-0002-1516-5700 (Olayinka), 0000-0001-8094-261X (Akpinar-Elci)

Original Publication Citation

Olayinka, O. O., & Akpinar-Elci, M. (2016). Development of occupational health measures for the National Health Security Preparedness Index. Frontiers in Public Health, 4(79), 1-3. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2016.00079

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