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Um United Way, University Of Mississippi

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Do you want to help your neighbors when they need it most? Would you like to help children and youth learn as well as become successful members of your community? Sure you do! How? By supporting your United Way! Last year, the United Way of Oxford-Lafayette County (UWOLC) used your contributions to touch the lives of more than 20,000 people in the Lafayette-Oxford-University (LOU) community. We believe everyone deserves opportunities to have a good life: a quality education that leads to a stable job, enough income to support a family through retirement, and good health.

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Planning For Pandemic Influenza: Lessons From The Experiences Of Thirteen Indiana Counties, George H. Avery, Mark Lawley, Sandra Garrett, Barrett Caldwell, Marshall P. Durr, Dulcy Abraham, Feng Lin, Po-Ching C. Delaurentis, Maria L. Peralta, Alice Russell, Renata A. Kopach-Conrad, Lalaine M. Ignacio, Rebeca Sandino, Deanna J. Staples

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Significant concerns exist over the ability of the healthcare and public health systems to meet the surge demands that would result from an event such as an influenza pandemic. Current guidance for public health planners is largely based on expert opinion and may lack connection to the problems of street-level public health practice. To identify the problems of local planners and prepare a state-level planning template for increasing health care surge capacity that accounted for these issues,a study was conducted of local pandemic planning efforts in thirteen counties, finding that cognitive biases, coordination problems, institutional structures in the healthcare system, …