This guide is intended to assist community hospitals in identifying issues with response capabilities and resource availability during an influenza pandemic as well as to develop strategies to address them.
Publication Date:
1/7/2013
Post Date: 11/30/2018
Publication Date:
10/17/2018
Post Date: 11/30/2018
This document describes the major considerations healthcare facility emergency planners must account for when determining patient surge management solutions for longer-duration events, such as weeks to months of managing seasonal illness surge.
Publication Date:
11/9/2006
Post Date: 11/30/2018
This planning checklist is intended to assist emergency medical services and other transport providers assess and improve their influenza pandemic preparedness.
Publication Date:
8/16/2017
Post Date: 11/30/2018
This playbook synthesizes multiple sources of information in a single planning document addressing the full spectrum of infectious agents to create a concise reference resource for emergency medical services (EMS) agencies developing their service policies.
Publication Date:
11/30/2018
Post Date: 11/30/2018
Public health systems must be resilient and prepared to face existing and future disease threats at the human-animal-environment interface. This Operational Framework provides a practical reference toward achieving that aim.
Publication Date:
6/6/2018
Post Date: 11/13/2018
This paper provides an overview of bioterrorism as it relates to the practice of dentistry.
Publication Date:
11/13/2018
Post Date: 11/13/2018
These guidelines include step-by-step instructions to upgrade infection control, prevention, and biosecurity efforts in any hospital, including recommendations on establishing an infection control practitioner to coordinate and implement the guidelines; developing standard operating procedures; creating a training plan; and implementing a surveillance program.
Publication Date:
10/26/2018
Post Date: 11/6/2018
To assist state and local health departments in planning for targeting vaccine during an influenza pandemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed the following checklist. The items in the checklist include specific activities public health emergency planners and immunization programs can do to prepare for targeted pandemic influenza vaccination.
Publication Date:
10/26/2018
Post Date: 11/6/2018
Federal, state, tribal, and local governments, communities, and the private sector have asked for updated planning guidance on who should receive vaccination early in a pandemic. This document uses pandemic severity categories based on the current US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pandemic Severity Assessment Framework.
Publication Date:
11/2/2018
Post Date: 11/2/2018
This plan provides an overview of priorities the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will pursue to support innovation in plant and animal biotechnology and to advance the agency’s public health mission.