Public Health Emergencies

Case Studies, Competencies, and Essential Services of Public Health

Tanya LeBlanc, Robert Kim-Farley
Springer Publishing
350 pages
ISBN: 9780826149022
December 2021

This textbook provides a current overview of public health emergency preparedness and response principles with case studies highlighting lessons learned from recent natural and man-made disasters and emergencies. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate public health students, it utilizes the 10 essential services of public health as performance standards and foundational competencies from the Council on Education for Public Health to assess public health systems and understand the public health implications of disasters, emergencies, and other catastrophic events.