Health-Related Core Capabilities

Publication: Psychiatric News

https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.46.20.psychnews_46_20_6_2

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists the following 15 core public-health emergency capabilities. A full discussion of these is found in "Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning, March 2011," posted at <www.cdc.gov/phpr/capabilities/DSLR_capabilities_July.pdf>.

Community Preparedness: Preparing to withstand and recover from public-health incidents.

Community Recovery: Collaborating with health care organizations, businesses, educational systems, emergency management officials, and others to plan and advocate for rebuilding public-health, medical, and mental/behavioral health services.

Emergency Operations Coordination: Establishing a standardized, scalable system of organization and supervision consistent with the National Incident Management System.

Emergency Public Information and Warning: Developing, coordinating, and disseminating information, alerts, warnings, and notifications to the public and to incident-management responders.

Fatality Management: Ensuring the proper recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certifying causes of death; and facilitating access to mental/behavioral health services to the family members, responders, and survivors of an incident.

Information Sharing: Routinely sharing information as well as issuing public-health alerts to all levels of government and the private sector to prepare for and respond to events.

Mass Care: Addressing the public-health, medical, and mental/behavioral health needs of people affected by an incident at congregate locations.

Medical Countermeasure Dispensing: Providing medical countermeasures (like vaccines, antiviral drugs, antibiotics, and antitoxin) to treat or prevent disease.

Medical Material Management and Distribution: Acquiring, maintaining, transporting, distributing, and tracking medical material (like pharmaceuticals, gloves, masks, and ventilators).

Medical Surge: Providing adequate medical evaluation and care during events that exceed the limits of the normal medical infrastructure and rapidly returning operations to normal.

Nonpharmaceutical Interventions: The ability to recommend and implement strategies for controlling disease, injury, and exposure.

Public-Health Laboratory Testing: Conducting rapid and conventional detection, characterization, confirmatory testing, data reporting, investigative support, and laboratory networking to address actual or potential exposure to hazards.

Public-Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation: Creating, maintaining, supporting, and strengthening routine health surveillance and detection systems and epidemiological investigation processes.

Responder Safety and Health: Protecting public-health-agency staff responding to an incident and supporting the health and safety needs of hospital and medical-facility personnel.

Volunteer Management: Coordinating identification, recruitment, credential verification, and training of volunteers to support the public-health response to incidents.

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Psychiatric News

Volume 46 • Number 20 • October 21, 2011

Pages: 6

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Published online: 21 October 2011

Published in print: October 21, 2011

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Health-Related Core Capabilities