Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 34 - 42
New England Compounding Center Meningitis Outbreak: A Compounding Public Health Crisis
Authors
Bolanle A. Olaniran, Juliann C. Scholl
Corresponding Author
Bolanle A. Olaniran
Received 21 July 2013, Accepted 20 January 2014, Available Online 3 March 2014.
- DOI
- 10.2991/jrarc.2014.4.1.4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Crisis management, Crisis preparedness, Anticipatory model, Meningitis outbreak
- Abstract
The New England Compounding Center’s (i.e., NECC) meningitis outbreak represents a major public health crisis of 2012 that led to over 40 deaths, along with infection of several hundred individuals. The outbreak necessitates the need for how such a crisis could be prevented.. The research focuses on assessment of the NECC Meningitis Outbreak using the Anticipatory Model of Crisis Management (AMCM). Using the AMCM principles, it was found that NECC did not engage in an adequate vigilant decision making process.
- Copyright
- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - JOUR AU - Bolanle A. Olaniran AU - Juliann C. Scholl PY - 2014 DA - 2014/03/03 TI - New England Compounding Center Meningitis Outbreak: A Compounding Public Health Crisis JO - Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response SP - 34 EP - 42 VL - 4 IS - 1 SN - 2210-8505 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrarc.2014.4.1.4 DO - 10.2991/jrarc.2014.4.1.4 ID - Olaniran2014 ER -