This one-hour program, originally broadcast on October 7, 2004 from the University at Albany's Center for Public Health Preparedness, provides healthcare professionals with information about how the SARS virus spread to Toronto. It also addresses the need for planning, infection control, public health renewal, surveillance, governance, and aggressive and proactive approaches.
Dr. James Young, from the Ministry of Public Safety and Security in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, presents. During the SARS outbreaks in Ontario in the Spring of 2003, Dr. Young co-managed the provincial emergency, provided leadership in management control, and served as one of the government's spokespersons in daily media briefings.
Program objectives include:
- Explaining how SARS spread to Toronto;
- Understanding the difference between isolation and quarantine;
- Illustrating the effect of isolation and quarantine on the spread of SARS; and
- Suppporting local health department plans for outbreak control.
You may view a webstream of this broadcast at the Center for Public Health Preparedness website.
Other products that may be of interest include:
- Preparing for the Return of SARS: Are We Ready? Parts I & II
- SARS Personal Protective Equipment Poster
- Personal Protective Equipment in Healthcare Settings.
This program was supported under a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The contents of this program are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC.
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