pH1N1 - a comparative analysis of public health responses in Ontario to the influenza outbreak public health and primary care: lessons learned and policy suggestions

摘要

BackgroundOntario’s 36 Public Health Units (PHUs) were responsible for implementing the H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Plans (PIPs) to address the first pandemic influenza virus in over 40 years. It was the first under conditions which permitted mass immunization. This is therefore the first opportunity to learn and document what worked well, and did not work well, in Ontario’s response to pH1N1, and to make recommendations based on experience.