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ECDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness

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Detection and assessment
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Incident recognition
5
1. Use event-based and indicator-based surveillance systems to detect health threats.
2
2. Know when case reports or clusters require further investigation, and how to initiate such investigations.
1
3. Evaluate the implications of national or international public health alerts for own Member State.
0
a. Know sources of information about potential public health threats from within own Member State. [K]
1
b. Follow up on reported information about potential public health threats from within own Member State to assess its quality and validity. [S]
0
c. Critically appraise information about potential public health threats from within own Member State. [S]
1
d. Evaluate whether a potential public health threat from within own Member State is notifiable under the IHR. [S]
0
e. Follow chains of communication to notify own Member State's IHR focal point about a potentially notifiable PHEIC. [S]
0
f. Understand and critically appraise information from event-based and indicator-based surveillance systems. [S]
1
g. Be familiar with laws on surveillance and reporting of communicable diseases at national, EU, and global levels. [K]
1
h. Be aware of sources of international public health alerts. [K]
1
i. Understand and critically appraise international public health alerts to assess the implications for own Member State. [K]
1
Risk characterisation
4
1. Identify as rapidly as possible the (possibly novel) agents responsible for a disease outbreak and their epidemiological characteristics.
1
2. Update estimates of an agent’s epidemiologic characteristics as new information becomes available.
1
3. Characterise the current and potential human health consequences of population exposure to biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear hazards.
1
4. Perform a risk assessment.
0
5. Apply the results of international risk assessments to own Member State.
0
6. Communicate the results and implications of risk assessments for their own Member States to policymakers with different backgrounds.
0
7. Communicate the results and implications of risk assessments to those responsible for emergency risk communication.
0
a. Be aware of microbiological characteristics of pathogens of pandemic potential. [K]
0
b. Be aware of epidemiologic characteristics and available control strategies for major pathogens of pandemic potential. [K]
0
c. Use epidemiologic principles and tools to characterise the current and potential consequences for human health of population exposure to biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear hazards. [S]
1
d. Apply knowledge of epidemiologic characteristics of major pathogens to interpret information on an emerging threat to assess the potential consequences for human health. [S]
1
e. Identify potential control strategies for emerging pathogens. [S]
0
f. Identify the use and limitations of diagnostic and typing methods and their interpretation to characterise population health risks. [S]
0
g. Communicate the results and implications of risk assessments to policymakers with different backgrounds. [S]
0
Epidemiological investigation
5
1. Develop case definitions to validate and analyse case reports.
0
2. Conduct outbreak investigations to identify pathogens and other agents, characterise affected population groups, and sources of exposure.
0
3. Conduct case-control studies and other epidemiologic studies to test hypotheses regarding sources of exposure.
0
4. Collaborate with local health officials, healthcare providers, and others to conduct outbreak investigations and epidemiologic studies.
0
5. Collaborate with international organisations to conduct coordinated multinational epidemiologic studies.
0
a. Create a case definition and adjust it as necessary during the investigation. [S]
0
b. Describe the outbreak in terms of person, place, and time. [S]
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c. Generate hypothesis about the cause and/or risk factors of the outbreak. [S]
0
d. Conduct analytical epidemiological investigation to identify the source. [S]
0
e. Document pathogen and likely sources and transmission pathways so as to inform evidence-based measures to control the outbreak. [S]
0
f. Report and present results of an investigation. [S]
0
g. Write a study protocol using investigation techniques consistent with the public health problem. [S]
0
h. Report and present results of a study. [S]
0
i. Be aware of appropriate laboratory methods for pathogens of pandemic potential. [K]
0
j. Perform evaluation studies of diagnostic test accuracy. [S]
0
k. Collaborate with public health epidemiologists to established criteria for microbiological input in design and analysis of epidemiologic investigations. [S]
0
l. Identify what legal issues may influence the channels of dissemination and content of the information being released. [S]
0
m. Document pathogen and likely sources and transmission pathways to inform appropriate choice of guidelines, plans and other types of guidance documents. [S]
0
Surveillance and epidemiological monitoring
5
1. Establish and maintain indicator and event-based surveillance system(s) to detect public health threats.
0
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