Emergency response: Principles to public authorities

Control Mode of Public Emergency Response

Emergency is very difficult to be predicted since the social system has complex and comprehensive characters, so while a public emergency happens, a reasonable, efficient and timely response and control mode to be quickly selected is important to decrease the loss and to reduce the control cost. If the public emergency response agency doesn’t rapidly forecast or estimate the potential loss, an ...

Public Health Emergency Response in Taiwan

In recent years, growth of international travel and trade, as well as climate change, has resulted in the frequent emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika, and MERS. In 2016, Taiwan used the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) tool to evaluate its public health emergency response capacities and understand important areas for improvement. This article presents Taiwan's d...

Public health worker competencies for emergency response.

Emergency preparedness is an expectation of public health organizations and an expectation of individual public health practitioners. Organizational performance standards for public health agencies have been developed during the last several years, providing a foundation for the development of competency statements to guide individual practice in public health program areas, like emergency resp...

Improving laws and legal authorities for public health emergency legal preparedness.

47 Introduction This paper is one of the four interrelated action agenda papers resulting from the National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness (Summit) convened in June 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and multi-disciplinary partners. Each of the action agenda papers deals with one of the four core elements of legal preparedness: laws and legal authorities; compete...

Assessing laws and legal authorities for public health emergency legal preparedness.