1 / 24

Terrorism: the Epidemiology of Fear

Terrorism: the Epidemiology of Fear. R onald LaPorte, PhD., F ranc ois Sauer, M.D., C arl os Gamboa, M.D., T on y Villasenor, BS, R a nia Saad, MD., and E ugene Shubnikov, M.D. Shock Disbelief Depression Anger Fear Helplessness. Where did our children and

westh
Download Presentation

Terrorism: the Epidemiology of Fear

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Terrorism: the Epidemiology of Fear RonaldLaPorte, PhD., FrancoisSauer, M.D., CarlosGamboa, M.D., TonyVillasenor, BS, RaniaSaad, MD., and EugeneShubnikov, M.D.

  2. Shock Disbelief Depression Anger Fear Helplessness

  3. Where did our children and community receive Terrorism Information Sept. 11-20

  4. Global Health Network Sept. 1, 2001 Towards an Internet Civil Defence against Bioterrorism Lancet

  5. Germans

  6. Sept 10 Rules of Engagement

  7. Approaches to Homeland DefenseSept. 10 • Sensors • Better Laboratories • Public Health Surveillance • Data Mining Surveillance

  8. Approaches to Homeland DefenseSept. 11

  9. Approaches to Homeland DefenseNow • Sensors • Better Laboratories • Public Health Surveillance • Data Mining Surveillance

  10. Sensors Better Laboratories Public Health Surveillance Data Mining Surveillance Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack Maximum 1-2 day Improvement Preparation 5 years Execution 1 day Diagnosed case 3 days First Death Multiple deaths

  11. Approaches to Homeland DefenseNow “A universal theme of the revolutionaries is that America spends entirely too much money buying slightly better versions of weapons it already has, at the expense of serious improvement” NYTimes, 3/10/02 Can these systems transform homeland defense?

  12. Weapons of Mass Destruction Sensors Better Laboratories Public Health Surveillance Data Mining Surveillance

  13. Using Sept. 10 technology Maximum Improvement, 1-2 days Risk Reduction = <5% Can these systems transform homeland defense?

  14. Bioterrorism is not an Emerging Disease Who is Mr. H?

  15. “Putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen” “…warfare seeks to conquer territories and capture cities; terrorism seeks to hurt a few people and to scare a lot of people in order to make a point” NYTimes, 1/6/2000 Click on Horror

  16. Hitchcock’s mission in life: “to simply scare the hell out of people”

  17. Old PH view of Bioterrorism Pathogen = Infectious Agent Damage = Morbidity and Mortality Model = Emerging Disease Epidemiology New PH view of Bioterrorism Pathogen = Hate Damage = Fear Model = Epidemiology of Fear and Hate

  18. I- New Models • Internet Civil Defense • CSI epidemiologists • Educational Deterrent against terrorism

More Related