Most U.S. States Poorly Prepared To Respond To Major Radiation Emergency Event

[jpak]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/219208.php

A survey of state health departments finds substantial gaps in preparedness for response to a major radiation emergency event, according to a report posted online today by Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, a journal published by the American Medical Association. This article as well as all of the articles in the special issue, Nuclear Preparedness, is open access and can be viewed at Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal's website

"Attention on public health preparedness has increased since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and other sites, " according to background information in the article. "In recent years, preparedness planning has expanded to an all-hazards approach that includes readiness to respond not only to terrorism but also to releases from unintentional technological incidents, natural disasters, and outbreaks of human diseases." Emergency preparedness guidance related to radiation release incidents (both intentional and unintentional) has come from a collaborative group of state, county, municipal and federal organizations called the National Alliance for Radiation Readiness (NARR). As part of the NARR activities, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) reassessed the status of radiation preparedness planning and response capabilities at the state health department level in 2010 through a survey. An original assessment was conducted in 2003.

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[ProfessionalLeftist]

1. hardly a surprise

And with The American Taliban Party cutting funding for such things at the state level, they are unlikely to be anytime soon, either.

[Myrina]

2. Most US States poorly prepared to respond to ... just about anything...

... thanks to all of the domestic infrastructure budgeting being sliced up between the military complex and bigass corporate tax breaks ...

:(