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Logistics modelling: Improving resource management and public information strategies in Florida

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  • Walsh, Daniel M.
  • Van Groningen, Chuck
  • Craig, Brian

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One of the most time-sensitive and logistically-challenging emergency response operations today is to provide mass prophylaxis to every man, woman and child in a community within 48 hours of a bioterrorism attack. To meet this challenge, federal, state and local public health departments in the USA have joined forces to develop, test and execute large-scale bioterrorism response plans. This preparedness and response effort is funded through the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Cities Readiness Initiative, a programme dedicated to providing oral antibiotics to an entire population within 48 hours of a weaponised inhalation anthrax attack. This paper will demonstrate how the State of Florida used a logistics modelling tool to improve its CRI mass prophylaxis plans. Special focus will be on how logistics modelling strengthened Florida’s resource management policies and validated its public information strategies.

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  • Walsh, Daniel M. & Van Groningen, Chuck & Craig, Brian, 2011. "Logistics modelling: Improving resource management and public information strategies in Florida," Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 5(3), pages 246-256, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jbcep0:y:2011:v:5:i:3:p:246-256
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    Keywords

    logistics; models; resources; public information; prophylaxis; anthrax; preparedness;
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    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

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