From: Public health emergency preparedness: a framework to promote resilience
Element | Description |
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Governance and leadership | Vertically and horizontally integrated structures, partnerships and accountabilities to support coordinated and interoperable system functioning Defines roles, promotes clarity and enables flexibility across system |
Planning process | Dynamic process anchored in the development of relationships and clear responsibilities Supports linkages across readiness priorities and activities |
Collaborative networks | Effective partnerships share skillsets and support trust in a networked system Enables access to expertise for a range of hazards and impacts |
Community engagement | Inclusivity supporting proactive understanding of community priorities and values Enables consideration of community risks, assets and values, and facilitates transparency and trust |
Risk analysis | Process to understand risks for the community, access and analyze information Facilitates informed planning and decision-making |
Surveillance and monitoring | Robust surveillance and information processes to connect the system, key stakeholders and the community Facilitates awareness in advance and analysis of impacts of public health actions to guide response |
Practice and experience | Exercises, simulations and/or practice to promote agency and create feedback Enables co-evolution and informs potential areas for adjustment |
Resources | Scalable and sufficient infrastructure promote adaptive capacity and support decision-making Ensures capability for mobilizing resources linked to plans and establishing priorities for the allocation of limited resources |
Workforce capacity | Well-trained and knowledgeable people constitute crucial social infrastructure for the system Supports business continuity, inter-operability and requires reciprocity |
Communication | Understandable information for awareness and potential actions Enables feedback and reach to diverse audiences when supported by sufficient capacity |
Learning and evaluation | Assessments key to recovery and building back better and more likely to be successful if timely and prioritized Fosters change and improvement for better preparedness and response |