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Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan, Supplement 11: Workforce Support--Psychosocial Considerations and Information Needs
"The objective of supplement 11 is to ensure health care providers, public health officials, and other emergency responders and essential service workers reside in the safest and healthiest environment possible by addressing the psychological and social ('psychosocial') needs of the occupational groups that will participate in the response to an influenza pandemic in Arizona."
Arizona. Department of Health Services
2006-06-07?
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Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan Supplement 4: Infection Control
This supplement provides guidance to health care and public health partners on basic principles of infection control for limiting the spread of pandemic influenza.
Arizona. Department of Health Services
2006-06-07?
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Public Health Laboratory Pandemic Preparedness
This PowerPoint presentation was given at the 2006 Association of Public Health Laboratories 2006 Annual Meeting, held in Long Beach, CA, June 4-6, 2006. This presentation describes the APHL flu algorithm, intended as guidelines to PHLs on how best to use CDC Influenza Branch and LRN assays in responding to requests for Flu A H5N1 testing. Algorithm 1 addresses routine flu surveillance now (WHO/USA Level 3). Algorithm 2 addresses testing for H5 when a case meets risk assessment or if human cases appear in the U.S. An additional algorithm is in development to guide testing modifications if a pandemic occurs. The testing algorithm is charted, as is the routine influenza testing algorithm for SPHLs (WHO/USA Phase 3).
Michigan. Department of Community Health
Somsel, Patricia A.
2006-06-05
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Pandemic Preparedness Writ Large or Small: Local Health Departments of Any Size
"Public health is organized at the state level, where public health legal authority largely rests. The manner in which governmental public health is structured varies from state to state. States may provide for local health departments operated by counties, by regions or groups of counties, or by municipalities large or small. These local health departments may function within a predominantly centralized system, with the state health department assuming most control, or may be largely autonomous within specified legal limits. Alternatively, states may have no local health departments at all, instead providing all services directly from the state health department. In addition, many tribal nations operate their own health departments, the jurisdictions for which may overlap county or even state lines. The services offered by local health departments vary widely as well. Certain core services (aspects of environmental health, disease control, and usually some form of health education or promotion) are common to most local health departments. However, the extent of these services and additional added services vary dramatically."
Public Entity Risk Institute
England, Bob
2006-06?
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Maintaining Local Government Business Continuity
"Beyond the infection control questions which local government agencies need to coordinate with their public health colleagues (and go beyond the scope of this paper), in preparing for pandemic influenza and business continuity, there are two non-health pandemic planning assumptions local government must consider: 1) simultaneous or near simultaneous outbreaks will limit the ability of any jurisdiction to provide mutual aid; and 2) the potential disruption of community critical infrastructure (e.g., transportation, commerce, utilities, and public safety). Local governments must also face the reality that many business continuity plans anticipate disruptions that are restricted to a certain place and time frame (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes [corrected], snow storms). Pandemic influenza requires different continuity plans since it won't be restricted to a certain place and time frame. Pandemic flu will be widely dispersed geographically and potentially arrive in waves that last several months at a time, with the potentially high employee absentee rates whatever the season. And unlike other disasters which typically involve damage to physical infrastructure, a pandemic does not damage a business's physical infrastructure. Rather, a pandemic affects an organization's most valuable asset, its employees and volunteers, its human infrastructure."
Public Entity Risk Institute
Varghese, Reuben
2006-06
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Local Responsibility
"The purpose of this review is to provide a framework for discussion among local government managers and officials regarding preparedness for a pandemic flu. The paper will merely raise issues and present possible strategies based on one small county's -- Schenectady County, with 146,000 people -- current planning efforts. Schenectady County is taking a coordinated approach to planning for pandemic flu -- a global outbreak of a novel strain of influenza with efficient human-to-human transmission. The county, lead by the County Public Health Department, in concert with the county's interdepartmental Emergency Management Steering Committee, is developing an ever-evolving pandemic plan to complement and supplement the county's emergency operations plan and emergency declaration system. The county's effort began in 2005, and involves numerous county agencies, key health care providers, municipalities, school districts, first responders, law enforcement agencies, and business community. By no means is planning complete. It is ongoing, evolving, and ever changing in response to increased knowledge of local players and emerging strategies at the state, federal, and global levels."
Public Entity Risk Institute
Rooney, Kathleen
2006-06
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Preparing for a Pandemic Influenza: A Primer for Governors and Senior State Officials
This primer provides an overview of the topics of concern for governors and state officials in planning for emergency response to "pandemic influenza or other disease outbreaks." It centers on "state policies and responsibilities, and is intended to complement the federal guidance issued by the White House Homeland Security Council, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Homeland Security." Included are discussions of how officials must control the outbreak despite a lack of fully functioning infrastructure in the "food, energy, and health care" industries, and the importance of the testing of pandemic flu emergency plans on both the state and federal levels. The author explains the key differences between seasonal influenza, avian influenza, and pandemic influenza. Past pandemics in 1918, 1957, and 1968 are used as examples in describing the necessary "conditions" for pandemic outbreaks. The document centers on aiding state officials in the creation of an "effective pandemic plan," outlining crucial responsibilities such as delineating clear "lines of authority", communication, and cooperation between local, state, and federal levels. Also included are discussions of how to inform the public about pandemic flu, enlarging storage of food and necessary supplies, problems with the continuity of government should an outbreak occur, shortfalls in the emergency medical response required with the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, and how to stop the spread of an outbreak.
National Governors' Association. Center for Best Practices
Prior, Stephen D.
2006-06
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Pandemic Influenza: Preparedness Guidelines for Manitoba Business
This document provides guidelines for business to address the disastrous effects of a pandemic influenza on businesses that are unprepared for absenteeism and public fear. It discusses reasons why the majority of small and medium sized businesses fail after a few years of an outage causing disaster. LLIS Core Capability: Community Preparedness; Private Sector; Private Sector; Community Preparedness; Public Health
Manitoba. Department of Health
2006-06
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United States International Engagement on Avian and Pandemic Influenza
This document, highlights international actions taken by various agencies of the U.S. Government to address preparedness for, surveillance against, and, response to the threat of avian influenza and a, human pandemic.
United States. Department of State
2006-06-01
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Infectious Disease Surveillance in Non-Farm Animal Populations: A Model Incorporating Zoos in West Nile Virus Surveillance [presentation]
This presentation,"Infectious Disease Surveillance in Non-Farm Animal Populations," was delivered at the June 2006 Agricultural Security Conference. Topics discussed in this presentation include: disease transmission and detection, facilitation of emergence, factors affecting disease spread, detection of anomalies in animal populations, zoonotic threats, biosurveillance for zoonotic threat detection, and the role of zoos in detection of urban disease vectors. More information on this conference can be found here: [https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=754363]
South Central Public Health Partnership
McNamara, Tracey; Glaser, Amy; Travis, Dominic
2006-06?
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Arizona Pandemic Flu Plan
"It is likely that another influenza pandemic will occur sometime in the future. Arizona needs to be prepared for such an event. To lessen the impact of an influenza pandemic, the State of Arizona has created this Influenza Pandemic Response Plan to promote an effective response throughout the pandemic. The plan was originally crafted in 2000, through a coordinated effort of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Arizona Division of Emergency Management (ADEM), local health departments and other partners and stakeholders. It is also an annex to the Arizona State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan (SERRP). The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has incorporated the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Planning Periods and Phases into its influenza pandemic response plan. These periods represent different levels of impact on society, based on the progression of a novel influenza virus and its potential to cause a pandemic; therefore, pandemic preparedness requires determining the appropriate capabilities, roles, and responsibilities needed to respond to the different periods. In keeping with the national model, the Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan identifies responsible parties and prescribes necessary actions, based on the WHO/HHS pandemic periods."
Arizona. Department of Health Services
2006-06
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Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan - Supplement 2: Laboratory Diagnostics
This supplement to the Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan provides a summary of necessary laboratory testing and laboratory safety measures regarding an influenza pandemic response.
Arizona. Department of Health Services
2006-06
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Pandemic Planning Toolkit: Section 2 - Flu Pandemic Background
Section 2 of Roche Laboratories Pandemic Planning Toolkit that offers background on pandemic flu.
Roche Laboratories
2006-06
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Pandemic Planning Toolkit: Section 3: Preparing for a Flu Pandemic
Section 3 of the Roche Laboratories Pandemic Planning Toolkit describes the roles of the Federal government and individual organizations in protecting citizens from a pandemic flu.
Roche Laboratories
2006-06
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Pandemic Planning Toolkit: Section 1 - Influenza Background: Seasonal and Avian Flu
Section 1 of Roche Laboratories Pandemic Planning Toolkit that provides an overview of the critical differences between season influenza and pandemic flu.
Roche Laboratories
2006-06
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Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan
Arizona's Influenza Pandemic Response Plan outlines the various preparedness and response roles delegated to state agencies and departments to counter the anticipated impact of a pandemic flu outbreak. LLIS Core Capability: Community Preparedness; Emergency Management; Public Health; Community Preparedness
Arizona. Department of Health Services
2006-06
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Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan, June 2006
"It is likely that another influenza pandemic will occur sometime in the future. Arizona needs to be prepared for such an event. To lessen the impact of an influenza pandemic, the State of Arizona has created this Influenza Pandemic Response Plan to promote an effective response throughout the pandemic. The plan was originally crafted in 2000, through a coordinated effort of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), Arizona Division of Emergency Management (ADEM), local health departments and other partners and stakeholders. It is also an annex to the Arizona State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan (SERRP). The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has incorporated the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Planning Periods and Phases into its influenza pandemic response plan. These periods represent different levels of impact on society, based on the progression of a novel influenza virus and its potential to cause a pandemic; therefore, pandemic preparedness requires determining the appropriate capabilities, roles, and responsibilities needed to respond to the different periods. In keeping with the national model, the Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan identifies responsible parties and prescribes necessary actions, based on the WHO/HHS pandemic periods. […] These entities are addressed in this plan, and are encouraged to develop their own influenza pandemic response plans that coordinate with the Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan. The heart of the Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan is the Response Activity Supplements. The Response Activity Supplements address the concepts listed below."
Arizona. Department of Health Services
2006-06
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Contra Costa County Pandemic Flu Kit
"Avian Flu, also called bird flu, is a contagious respiratory disease that can infect humans as well as birds. It is caused by a flu-like virus. Avian Flu virus does not usually infect humans but a number of cases of human Avian Flu have occurred since 1997. As of March 2006, there are no human cases of Avian Flu in the U.S. Chickens, ducks, geese and other wild water birds are especially at risk to get the disease. Avian flu can be deadly to both birds and humans."
Contra Costa County (Calif.). Health Services Department
2006-06-01
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Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them
"In this article, we consider the risk of multiple introductions and its implications for pandemic planning. [...] Since the last pandemic nearly 40 years ago, we have observed dramatic changes in social and ecological factors thought to facilitate emergence of a pandemic-capable strain."
PLoS Medicine
Mills, Christina E.; Robins, James M.; Bergstrom, Carl T. . . .
2006-06
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Arizona Influenza Pandemic Response Plan Supplement 13: Guidance for County and Tribal Health Departments
"County and tribal health departments will be highly effected prior to and during an influenza pandemic. This guidance is designed to help spotlight important planning and response activities that are necessary at the local health department level. In January 2006, HHS [Arizona Department of Health and Human Services] released a state and local planning checklist (www.pandemicflu.gov). While the HHS checklist is not reproduced here, is lists broad concepts that are important and may help counties and tribes in the development of their respective plans."
Arizona. Department of Health Services
2006-06
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Report to Congress: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Spending [June 2006]
"The current pandemic influenza threat stems from outbreaks of avian influenza in Asia and
Europe. The ability of the H5NI virus to infect a wide range of hosts, including birds and humans, is of great concern to the public health and medical community. Although the virus has not yet shown an ability to transmit efficiently between humans, it has the potential to acquire this capability. Once a pandemic begins, time will be a critical factor in our ability to accomplish the necessary production and delivery of vaccines and other medical countermeasures required to mitigate the pandemic. To prepare for the 'possibility of a pandemic, the President requested a total of $7.1 billion to fund a three-year strategy to enhance the Nation's pandemic influenza preparedness, of which $6.7 billion was designated for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS is responsible for the public health and medical response for a pandemic of human influenza. On November 2,2005, HHS released the HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan, which defines the HHS strategy for preparedness and response to this threat and provides a detailed framework for the operational plans being developed by HHS agencies and State, local, and tribal health authorities."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
2006-06
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WHO Pandemic Influenza Draft Protocol for Rapid Response and Containment
"No attempt has ever been made to alter the natural course of a pandemic near its start. Moreover, given the unpredictable behaviour of influenza viruses, no one can know in advance whether the start of a pandemic will begin gradually, following the emergence of a virus not yet fully adapted to humans, or be announced by a sudden explosion of cases, thereby precluding any attempt at containment. International concern about the threat posed by the H5N1 virus has stimulated intense research efforts aimed at improving the understanding of this virus and its pandemic potential. Recommended actions in this protocol are expected to evolve as knowledge about this virus in particular, and pandemic influenza in general, continues to improve."
World Health Organization
2006-05-30
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Guidelines for Acquisition of Ventilators to Meet Demands for Pandemic Flu and Mass Casualty Incidents
"Following the tragedy of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax mailings of the same year, the U.S. medical community has undertaken steps to deal with a potential event that could result in a large number of patients requiring mechanical ventilation. More recently, the threat from nature, in the form of the Avian Flu (H5N1), has accelerated preparations for a pandemic flu, which might result in thousands of patients requiring mechanical ventilation. At present, the H5N1 flu remains difficult to transmit from person to person, but mutation of the virus could change this quickly. Reports from Southeast Asia suggest that the virulence of H5N1 results in severe acute respiratory failure (ARF). In the United States, the treatment for ARF is supplemental oxygen and mechanical ventilation. Thus we can expect a surge in demand for ventilators if a pandemic of H5N1 were to occur. In the wake of a pandemic flu with a virulent flu strain like H5N1, patients with survivable illness will die from lack of resources unless more ventilators that have the capabilities to provide ventilatory support for patients with ARF are readily available."
American Association for Respiratory Care
2006-05-25
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Quebec Pandemic Influenza Plan--Health Mission [Presentation]
This plan outlines the plan for prevention and response to a pandemic influenza outbreak in the province of seven million people.
Government of Quebec
Paquet, Francois
2006-05-24
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Oklahoma Pandemic Influenza Management Plan 2006
"The Oklahoma Pandemic Influenza Management Plan is intended to be a dynamic and interactive document. Following the release of the HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in November 2005, the Pandemic Influenza Committee undertook the challenge to review and augment the Oklahoma Pandemic Influenza Management Plan to address areas that needed to be enhanced. The Oklahoma Pandemic Influenza Management Plan has been expanded from six to nine essential elements of preparedness and response which would be integral in the management of a potential influenza pandemic. The nine essential elements address Command, Control and Management; Surveillance and Laboratory Diagnostics; Delivery of Vaccine; Acquisition and Delivery of Antiviral Medications; Health Systems and Emergency Response; Community Disease Control and Prevention; Infection Control; Clinical Guidelines and Risk Communication. The Oklahoma Pandemic Influenza Management Plan and its appendices were developed as a guidance for a coordinated statewide, multi-sector response to pandemic influenza. Prevention and preparedness activities to facilitate the public health response and recovery components after a pandemic are also part of the plan guidance. The Oklahoma Pandemic Influenza Management Plan is public health-focused with the overall goal to minimize serious illness and deaths that may occur with a severe influenza pandemic."
Oklahoma. State Department of Health
2006-05-18
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Pandemic Influenza Checklist for Businesses
"To assist you in developing and reviewing plans, the Government [of Great Britain] has developed the following checklist specifically regarding pandemic influenza. It identifies important and specific activities which organisations can do to prepare for a pandemic as well as where more general guidance will be provided by the Government. Directed mainly at medium and large businesses, some elements will be of use to smaller businesses."
Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Civil Contingencies Secretariat
2006-05-16?
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Shelter-In-Place Protective Action Guide Book
"This guide book contains information and advice about planning for and implementing temporary shelter-in-place (SIP) as protection from airborne toxic chemical hazards that might result from an accident or incident at an Army chemical weapons stockpile storage site. The guide book provides planners and decision-makers with guidance on how to make temporary SIP effective, and it includes examples to help users understand the guidance."
United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Department of the Army; Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program
2006-05-12
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Philadelphia Department of Public Health: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan
This annex to the Philadelphia Public Health Emergency Response Plan supplements the City's overall Emergency Operations Plan. It identifies the cooperating municipal agencies involved in preparedness for pandemic flu and their respective roles. It was developed using the November 2005 guidance provided by the U.S. government.
Philadelphia (Pa.). Department of Public Health
2006-05-12
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Understand, Plan and Respond to Pandemic Influenza: Prepare, Not Panic [presentation]
This presentation, "Understand, Plan and Respond to Pandemic Influenza: Prepare, Not Panic," was delivered at the June 2006 Agricultural Security Conference. This presentation discusses the origins and history of the influenza virus in humans, planning assumptions regarding the virus, preparedness checklists for businesses, individuals, and families, avoiding exposure and isolation, and simple protective measures such as the use of masks and proper personal hygiene. More information on this conference can be found here: [https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=754363]
Alabama. Department of Public Health
2006-05-12
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Continuity of Operations: Agencies Could Improve Planning for Telework during Disruptions, Testimony before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, Statement of David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States
"To ensure that essential government services are available in emergencies, federal agencies are required to develop continuity of operations (COOP) plans. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is responsible for providing guidance to agencies on developing such plans. Its guidance states that in their continuity planning, agencies should consider the use of telework - that is, work performed at an employee's home or at a work location other than a traditional office. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently reported that 43 agencies have identified staff eligible to telework, and that more than 140,000 federal employees used telework in 2004. OPM also reported that many government operations can be carried out in emergencies using telework. For example, telework appears to be an effective strategy for responding to a pandemic-a global outbreak of disease that spreads easily from person to person and causes serious illness and death worldwide. In previous work, GAO identified steps that agencies should take to effectively use telework during an emergency. GAO was asked to testify on how agencies are addressing the use of telework in their continuity planning, which is among the topics discussed in a report being released today."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2006-05-11
