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Further Information

Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: efforts of New South Wales Health in planning for the Games
NSW Public Health Bulletin, Volume 11, Number 8, August 2000
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/227/issue/4347.htm

Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: New South Wales health services for the Games
NSW Public Health Bulletin, Volume 11, Number 8, August 2000
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/227/issue/4347.htm

Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: Keeping the dream alive – and healthy: public health preparations for the Games
NSW Public Health Bulletin, Volume 11, Number 8, August 2000
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/227/issue/4347.htm
Mass gatherings and public health: The experience of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games (Chapter 1: overview of public health planning and responsibility).  Tsouros AD, Efstathiou PA (Eds).  Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2007  http://www.euro.who.int/document/e90712.pdf

Mass gatherings and public health: The experience of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games (Chapter 16; health sector command, coordination, and communication).  Tsouros AD, Efstathiou PA (Eds).  Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2007  http://www.euro.who.int/document/e90712.pdf

Mass gatherings and public health: The experience of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games (Annex 4: outlines of five key operational plans: health sector coordination; quarantine measures; mass-casualty management; mass prophylaxis planning; and crisis communication.)  Tsouros AD, Efstathiou PA (Eds).  Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2007  http://www.euro.who.int/document/e90712.pdf

Hadjichristodoulou C, Soteriades E, Kolonia V, Falagas ME, Pantelopoulos E, Panagakos G et al. Methodological aspects of a GIS-based environmental health inspection program used in the Athens 2004 Olympic and Para Olympic Games. BMC Public Health 2005, 5:93
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/5/93

Mass gatherings and public health: The experience of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games (Annex 2: Games: examples of daily situation reports.)  Tsouros AD, Efstathiou PA (Eds).  Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2007  http://www.euro.who.int/document/e90712.pdf

 

Additional information

Bennett C, Bartlett M, Burgess G. Spooner B. Public health planning for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games in metropolitan area health services. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2000;11:153-4.

Efstathiou PA, Tsouros AD, Knebel A, Barbeschi M. Health sector command, coordination and communication.  Chapter 16, WHO book.

Jorm L, Visotina M. Keeping the dream alive – and healthy: public health preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympica and Paralympic Games. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2000;11:137-8.

Kirlessi A, Tsouros AD, Sabatakakis MS. Operational framework for health and for the national and subnational jurisdictions for public health for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.  Chapter 2, WHO book.

Meehan P, Toomey KE, Drinnon J, Cunningham S, Anderson N, Baker E. Public health response for the 1996 Olympic Games. JAMA 1998;279:1469-73.

NSW Department of Health, Metropolitan Public Health Unit Directors. Public health unit operational issues for the Sydney 2000 Olympics – public health protection ‘outside the fence’. Sydney: 1997.

NSW Department of Health, Office of the Chief Health Officer. Public health service strategy for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sydney: 1997.

Thackway S, Owen T. Coordinating public health services at Olympic venues during the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2000;11:152-3.

Tshabalala-Msimang M, Pillay Y.  Preparing the health sector for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. S Afr Med J 2007;97:40.

Tsouros AD, Efstathiou PA, eds. Mass gatherings and public health: the experience of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2007.

Tsouros AD, Efstathiou PA, Baka A, et al. International cooperation for public health.  Chapter 17, WHO book.

Utah Department of Health. Public health preparations for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Utah Health Status Update, January 2002.

Visotina M. Coordination of the NSW health Olympic effort. NSW Public Health Bulletin 2000;11:138-40.

Beijing aims to intensify public health and medical efforts during the Games

http://en.beijing2008.cn/37/37/article214013737.shtml


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