Public Health Emergency Preparedness Practices and the Management of Frontline Communicable Disease Response

Sullivan, Amy D.; Strickland, Colten J; Howard, K.

doi:10.1097/phh.0000000000000963

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“…By considering COVID-19 is spreading so fast which causes difficulties in containing the disease, we, as a community of shared future for mankind, need better coordination in global cooperation and further improvement in the multi-sectoral cooperation in order to quickly take response and prevent from the pandemic [18]. In addition, we also need better coherence of our resources with more international partners, at least, we can quickly improve our priority settings in sharing information and data, on research priority settings, on surveillance and response to outbreaks at a global level.…”

Section: Global Cooperation In Priority Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fighting against the common enemy of COVID-19: a practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind

et al. 2020

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The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 has caused more than 80 813 confirmed cases in all provinces of China, and 21 110 cases reported in 93 countries of six continents as of 7 March 2020 since middle December 2019. Due to biological nature of the novel coronavirus, named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with faster spreading and unknown transmission pattern, it makes us in a difficulty position to contain the disease transmission globally. To date, we have found it is one of the greatest challenges to human beings in fighting against COVID-19 in the history, because SARS-CoV-2 is different from SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV in terms of biological features and transmissibility, and also found the containment strategies including the non-pharmaceutical public health measures implemented in China are effective and successful. In order to prevent a potential pandemic-level outbreak of COVID-19, we, as a community of shared future for mankind, recommend for all international leaders to support preparedness in low and middle income countries especially, take strong global interventions by using old approaches or new tools, mobilize global resources to equip hospital facilities and supplies to protect noisome infections and to provide personal protective tools such as facemask to general population, and quickly initiate research projects on drug and vaccine development. We also recommend for the international community to develop better coordination, cooperation, and strong solidarity in the joint efforts of fighting against COVID-19 spreading recommended by the joint mission report of the WHO-China experts, against violating the International Health Regulation (WHO, 2005), and against stigmatization, in order to eventually win the battle against our common enemy -COVID-19.

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Section: Global Cooperation In Priority Settingsmentioning

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Fighting against the common enemy of COVID-19: a practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind

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“…For example, we observed that response capacities, specifically capacities related to emergency preparedness planning and access to communication infrastructure, were associated with greater burden detection. The finding for emergency preparedness planning may have arisen due to previous studies demonstrating that a lack of emergency planning may lead to ineffective responses [38][39][40]. Having a framework for emergency response may therefore provide countries with tools to efficiently implement diagnostic programs.…”

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Pandemic preparedness improves national-level SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality data completeness: a cross-country ecologic analysis

Ledesma,

Papanicolas,

Stoto

et al. 2024

Popul Health Metrics

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Background Heterogeneity in national SARS-CoV-2 infection surveillance capabilities may compromise global enumeration and tracking of COVID-19 cases and deaths and bias analyses of the pandemic’s tolls. Taking account of heterogeneity in data completeness may thus help clarify analyses of the relationship between COVID-19 outcomes and standard preparedness measures. Methods We examined country-level associations of pandemic preparedness capacities inventories, from the Global Health Security (GHS) Index and Joint External Evaluation (JEE), on SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 death data completion rates adjusted for income. Analyses were stratified by 100, 100–300, 300–500, and 500–700 days after the first reported case in each country. We subsequently reevaluated the relationship of pandemic preparedness on SARS-CoV-2 infection and age-standardized COVID-19 death rates adjusted for cross-country differentials in data completeness during the pre-vaccine era. Results Every 10% increase in the GHS Index was associated with a 14.9% (95% confidence interval 8.34–21.8%) increase in SARS-CoV-2 infection completion rate and a 10.6% (5.91–15.4%) increase in the death completion rate during the entire observation period. Disease prevention (infections: β = 1.08 [1.05–1.10], deaths: β = 1.05 [1.04–1.07]), detection (infections: β = 1.04 [1.01–1.06], deaths: β = 1.03 [1.01–1.05]), response (infections: β = 1.06 [1.00–1.13], deaths: β = 1.05 [1.00–1.10]), health system (infections: β = 1.06 [1.03–1.10], deaths: β = 1.05 [1.03–1.07]), and risk environment (infections: β = 1.27 [1.15–1.41], deaths: β = 1.15 [1.08–1.23]) were associated with both data completeness outcomes. Effect sizes of GHS Index on infection completion (Low income: β = 1.18 [1.04–1.34], Lower Middle income: β = 1.41 [1.16–1.71]) and death completion rates (Low income: β = 1.19 [1.09–1.31], Lower Middle income: β = 1.25 [1.10–1.43]) were largest in LMICs. After adjustment for cross-country differences in data completeness, each 10% increase in the GHS Index was associated with a 13.5% (4.80–21.4%) decrease in SARS-CoV-2 infection rate at 100 days and a 9.10 (1.07–16.5%) decrease at 300 days. For age-standardized COVID-19 death rates, each 10% increase in the GHS Index was with a 15.7% (5.19–25.0%) decrease at 100 days and a 10.3% (− 0.00–19.5%) decrease at 300 days. Conclusions Results support the pre-pandemic hypothesis that countries with greater pandemic preparedness capacities have larger SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality data completeness rates and lower COVID-19 disease burdens. More high-quality data of COVID-19 impact based on direct measurement are needed.

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“…The high transmissibility of COVID-19 requires coordination and global cooperation to quickly implement targeted responses and mitigate the pandemic [ 38 ]. With this, social media plays a vital role in increasing the collective capacity and action of global and local bodies through effective communication to the public [ 39 ].…”

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Emergency preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Modelling the roles of social media with fuzzy DEMATEL and analytic network process

Selerio

Caladcad

Catamco³

et al. 2022

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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While the utility of social media has been widely recognized in the current literature, minimal effort has been made to further the analysis of their roles on disruptive events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this gap, this work comprehensively identifies the 16 prevalent social media roles in disaster preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, an integrated fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (FDEMATEL) and analytic network process (ANP), hereby termed the FDANP methodology, is used to perform the causal analysis of social media roles and to systemically measure the priority of these roles in emergency preparedness. Among the identified roles, those considered top priority are social media roles concerned with the facilitation of public health policy development, prevention of misinformation, and management of public behavior and response. These results were found to be robust, as evidenced by the sensitivity analysis. The implications of these findings were also detailed in this work in the context of a developing country.

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Public Health Emergency Preparedness Practices and the Management of Frontline Communicable Disease Response

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Fighting against the common enemy of COVID-19: a practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind

Fighting against the common enemy of COVID-19: a practice of building a community with a shared future for mankind

Pandemic preparedness improves national-level SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality data completeness: a cross-country ecologic analysis

Emergency preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Modelling the roles of social media with fuzzy DEMATEL and analytic network process

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