Guest Article: Home Care Guide For Pandemic Flu

30. April 2008 by Dan Verton.

Providing for the Public’s Health at Home During Pandemic Flu 

by Marty Fenstersheib, MD, MPH

Health Office, Santa Clara County Public Health Department, Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System

As public health professionals and leaders, so much of our job every day involves anticipating, planning and preparing for potential public health epidemics and emergencies.  Often, it seems as if we are asking ourselves and our colleagues hypothetical or theoretical questions; the proverbial “What if?”   

With a number of questions in mind - What if pandemic flu comes to our community? What if healthcare and others essential workers can’t come to work? What if we gave them information so that they could be better prepared at home, would that help? - the Santa Clara County Public Health Department developed a home care guide for pandemic flu preparedness.

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