Lenart Brienne, Albanese Joseph, Halstead William, Schlegelmilch Jeffrey, Paturas James
Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
J Bus Contin Emer Plan. 2012;6(2):174-9.
Homeland security fusion centres serve to gather, analyse and share threat-related information among all levels of governments and law enforcement agencies. In order to function effectively, fusion centres must employ people with the necessary competencies to understand the nature of the threat facing a community, discriminate between important information and irrelevant or merely interesting facts and apply domain knowledge to interpret the results to obviate or reduce the existing danger. Public health and medical sector personnel routinely gather, analyse and relay health-related inform-ation, including health security risks, associated with the detection of suspicious biological or chemical agents within a community to law enforcement agencies. This paper provides a rationale for the integration of public health and medical personnel in fusion centres and describes their role in assisting law enforcement agencies, public health organisations and the medical sector to respond to natural or intentional threats against local communities, states or the nation as a whole.
国土安全融合中心致力于在各级政府和执法机构之间收集、分析和共享与威胁相关的信息。为了有效运作，融合中心必须聘用具备必要能力的人员，以便理解社区面临的威胁的性质，区分重要信息与无关或仅有趣的事实，并运用领域知识解读结果，以消除或减少现有危险。公共卫生和医疗部门人员通常会收集、分析并向执法机构传递与社区内发现可疑生物或化学制剂相关的健康信息，包括卫生安全风险。本文阐述了将公共卫生和医疗人员纳入融合中心的理由，并描述了他们在协助执法机构、公共卫生组织和医疗部门应对针对当地社区、州或整个国家的自然或人为威胁方面所发挥的作用。
