Assessing Cross-Sectoral and Cross-Jurisdictional Coordination for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness

Resource Summary

This article identifies that responding to an emergency requires societal coalescence and cohesion to optimize effectiveness. Local, state, territorial, tribal, federal and international jurisdictional levels have to cooperate with each other in ways that are distinct from the norm in order to maximize resource utilization and minimize response time.

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