Presidential Address: Psychosomatic Medicine and Biodefense Preparedness—A New Role for the American Psychosomatic Society
Biodefense preparations in the United States have focused mostly on improving biosurveillance and hospital surge capacity in the event of an outbreak or a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) event. However, what if an invisible bioweapon or dirty bomb was released in a major population center, or if a...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.523.7587 2023-05-15T15:34:25+02:00 Presidential Address: Psychosomatic Medicine and Biodefense Preparedness—A New Role for the American Psychosomatic Society Steven E. Locke The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.523.7587 http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/68/5/698.full.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.523.7587 http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/68/5/698.full.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/68/5/698.full.pdf somatic Society PDBPR Psychosocial Dimensions of Biodefense text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T10:15:50Z Biodefense preparations in the United States have focused mostly on improving biosurveillance and hospital surge capacity in the event of an outbreak or a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) event. However, what if an invisible bioweapon or dirty bomb was released in a major population center, or if avian flu took hold with sustained human to human transmission? Suddenly, we need to combine efforts from psychosomatic medicine and general medicine with public health practice to triage nonexposed patients with somatic symptoms from those with medical sequelae resulting from hazardous exposures. This would better enable the limited acute care resources to be directed to those most in need of urgent medical care. Furthermore, psychosomatic medicine experts are potentially important players in biodefense planning related to risk communication and health education strategies in a WMD scenario or outbreak in which individuals must make informed choices about their need for immediate medical attention. Key Text Avian flu Unknown |
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Biodefense preparations in the United States have focused mostly on improving biosurveillance and hospital surge capacity in the event of an outbreak or a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) event. However, what if an invisible bioweapon or dirty bomb was released in a major population center, or if avian flu took hold with sustained human to human transmission? Suddenly, we need to combine efforts from psychosomatic medicine and general medicine with public health practice to triage nonexposed patients with somatic symptoms from those with medical sequelae resulting from hazardous exposures. This would better enable the limited acute care resources to be directed to those most in need of urgent medical care. Furthermore, psychosomatic medicine experts are potentially important players in biodefense planning related to risk communication and health education strategies in a WMD scenario or outbreak in which individuals must make informed choices about their need for immediate medical attention. Key |
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