Alternative Designs for Systems for Providing Postattack Medical Care. Volume I.
Abstract
This study was designed to assist in analyzing postattack problems in medical preparedness planners by: (a) developing an aggregate one-year postattack health care system model applicable at the national, regional, state, or county level; (b) improving the Local Total Emergency Health Care System Model (the Local Model) that was developed under a previous contract for use in postattack medical preparedness planning in a single locality; (c) developing computer programs for processing raw casualty and medical resource data (personnel, facilities, and supplies) produced by the DASH and READY I damage assessment programs into the form required to serve as direct inputs into both the Local and Aggregate Models; (d) undertaking an exploratory study to evaluate the relative usefulness and desirability of developing alternative measures, in addition to 'survivors added,' for use in comparisons of cost-effectiveness ratios in selecting from alternative designs for postattack medical care systems; and (e) applying the newly developed Aggregate Total Emergency Health Care System Model (the Aggregate Model) in a case study of the postattack health posture of the State of Michigan. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0718081
Entities
People
- A. Walter Voors
- Edward L. Hill
- Helen S. Anderson
- Jerry B. Hallan
- John N. Pyecha
Organizations
- RTI International