Bibliographic details:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Public health preparedness capabilities: National standards for state and local planning. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Abstract:
In 2011, CDC established 15 capabilities that serve as national standards for public health preparedness planning. Since then, these capability standards have served as a vital framework for state, local, tribal, and territorial preparedness programs as they plan, operationalize, and evaluate their ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from public health emergencies.
Public health departments have made progress since 2001, as demonstrated in CDC’s state preparedness reports (http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/reportingonreadiness.htm).
However, state and local public health departments continue to face multiple challenges, including an ever-evolving list of public health threats. Regardless of the threat, an effective public health response begins with an effective public health system with robust systems in place to conduct routine public health activities.
The resulting body of work, Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning, hereafter referred to as public health preparedness capabilities, creates national standards for public health preparedness capability-based planning and will assist state and local planners in identifying gaps in preparedness, determining the specific jurisdictional priorities, and developing plans for building and sustaining capabilities. These standards are designed to accelerate state and local preparedness planning, provide guidance and recommendations for preparedness planning, and, ultimately, assure safer, more resilient, and better prepared communities.