Evaluating health systems’ preparedness for emerging infectious diseases: A novel conceptual and analytic framework

Krumkamp, Ralf; Mounier-Jack, Sandra; Ahmad, Amena; Reintjes, Ralf; Coker, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.06.004

Cited by 4 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The current thinking in outbreak response planning in public health recommends that outbreak planning needs to be locally adapted depending on the presence or absence of public health infrastructure for each individual disease [8]. In this review, just one of the 14 plans provided an holistic and comprehensive picture of how the surveillance system and response plan should be organised in order to (a) detect a dengue outbreak at an early stage through clearly defined and validated alert signals, (b) exactly define that a dengue outbreak has started, and (c) organise an early response to the warning signals detected, or a late response when an outbreak has been verified [9].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting and Responding to a Dengue Outbreak: Evaluation of Existing Strategies in Country Outbreak Response Planning

Harrington

Kroeger

Runge-Ranzinger³

et al. 2013

Journal of Tropical Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background. Dengue outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity. Evidence-based epidemic preparedness and effective response are now a matter of urgency. Therefore, we have analysed national and municipal dengue outbreak response plans. Methods. Thirteen country plans from Asia, Latin America and Australia, and one international plan were obtained from the World Health Organization. The information was transferred to a data analysis matrix where information was extracted according to predefined and emerging themes and analysed for scope, inconsistencies, omissions, and usefulness. Findings. Outbreak response planning currently has a considerable number of flaws. Outbreak governance was weak with a lack of clarity of stakeholder roles. Late timing of responses due to poor surveillance, a lack of combining routine data with additional alerts, and lack of triggers for initiating the response weakened the functionality of plans. Frequently an outbreak was not defined, and early response mechanisms based on alert signals were neglected. There was a distinct lack of consideration of contextual influences which can affect how an outbreak detection and response is managed. Conclusion. A model contingency plan for dengue outbreak prediction, detection, and response may help national disease control authorities to develop their own more detailed and functional context specific plans.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting and Responding to a Dengue Outbreak: Evaluation of Existing Strategies in Country Outbreak Response Planning

Harrington

Kroeger

Runge-Ranzinger³

et al. 2013

Journal of Tropical Medicine

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Thirteen of the articles were qualitative studies and nine used a mixed-methods design. Most of the qualitative studies combined interviews with observations (Broz et al 2009;Forrester et al 2014aForrester et al , 2014bNielsen et al 2015;Pathmanathan et al 2014;Summers et al 2014), with occasional studies adding focus groups (Carrion Martin et al 2016;Dynes et al 2015;Lee-Kwan et al 2014), documentary analysis (Abramowitz et al 2015;Krumkamp et al 2010) or community mapping (Hagan et al 2015). In the case of the mixed-methods studies, these either combined interviews with structured surveys (Bile et al 2010;Brahmbhatt et al 2010;Flores et al 2011), or interviews and observations with secondary data analysis (Brennan and Rimba 2005;Güereña-Burgueño et al 2006;Kilmarx et al 2014;Matanock et al 2014).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analysis of usage of health facility/services and health needs Identification of causes of the outbreak (Cheung et al 2003) Assessment of capacity to respond to the outbreak (Krumkamp et al 2010) Assessment of control strategies (Broz et al 2009;Flores et al 2011) Analysis of the barriers behind lack of health facility use (Carrion Martin et al 2016;Dynes et al 2015;Yamanis et al 2016…”

Section: Evaluation Of Control Strategies and Other Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rapid qualitative research methods during complex health emergencies: A systematic review of the literature

Johnson

Vindrola‐Padros

2017

Social Science & Medicine

171

141

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa highlighted both the successes and limitations of social science contributions to emergency response operations. An important limitation was the rapid and effective communication of study findings. A systematic review was carried out to explore how rapid qualitative methods have been used during global heath emergencies to understand which methods are commonly used, how they are applied, and the difficulties faced by social science researchers in the field. We also asses their value and benefit for health emergencies. The review findings are used to propose recommendations for qualitative research in this context. Peer-reviewed articles and grey literature were identified through six online databases. An initial search was carried out in July 2016 and updated in February 2017. The PRISMA checklist was used to guide the reporting of methods and findings. The articles were assessed for quality using the MMAT and AACODS checklist. From an initial search yielding 1444 articles, 22 articles met the criteria for inclusion. Thirteen of the articles were qualitative studies and nine used a mixed-methods design. The purpose of the rapid studies included: the identification of causes of the outbreak, and assessment of infrastructure, control strategies, health needs and health facility use. The studies varied in duration (from 4 days to 1 month). The main limitations identified by the authors were: the low quality of the collected data, small sample sizes, and little time for cross-checking facts with other data sources to reduce bias. Rapid qualitative methods were seen as beneficial in highlighting context-specific issues that need to be addressed locally, population-level behaviors influencing health service use, and organizational challenges in response planning and implementation. Recommendations for carrying out rapid qualitative research in this context included the early designation of community leaders as a point of contact, early and continuous sharing of findings, and development of recommendations with local policy makers and practitioners.

show abstract

“…Care must be taken when comparing data from different countries,1 and various reasons may explain the observed differences 2. But from a public health perspective, experience with SARS3 suggests that Germany’s intensive system of testing, contact tracing, and quarantine were critical to successful control of the outbreak, especially given the role of super spreading events that seem to shape the current epidemic in Germany, with the most recent ones in meat plants 3…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Lessons in contact tracing from Germany

Reintjes

2020

BMJ

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Evaluating health systems’ preparedness for emerging infectious diseases: A novel conceptual and analytic framework

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Detecting and Responding to a Dengue Outbreak: Evaluation of Existing Strategies in Country Outbreak Response Planning

Detecting and Responding to a Dengue Outbreak: Evaluation of Existing Strategies in Country Outbreak Response Planning

Rapid qualitative research methods during complex health emergencies: A systematic review of the literature

Lessons in contact tracing from Germany

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About