ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2014
A conceptual framework to measure systems' performance during emergency preparedness exercises.
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- Enhancing the design, conduct and evaluation of public health emergency preparedness exercises: a rapid review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Utilizing strategy mapping software for participatory evaluation of crisis management efforts: A case study.PloS one · 2026Article
- The Incident Management Measurement Tool (IMMT): A Tool for Measuring Public Health Incident Management During and After Emergencies.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2025Article
- Scientometric Analysis of Public Health Emergencies: 1994-2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Driving the effectiveness of public health emergency management strategies through cross-departmental collaboration: Configuration analysis based on 15 cities in China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Evaluating simulations as preparation for health crises like CoVID-19: Insights on incorporating simulation exercises for effective response.International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2021Article
- Simulation exercises and after action reviews - analysis of outputs during 2016-2019 to strengthen global health emergency preparedness and response.Globalization and health · 2020Article
- Decentralization and health system performance - a focused review of dimensions, difficulties, and derivatives in India.BMC health services research · 2016Review
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Abstract
Large-scale public health emergencies require a sophisticated, coordinated response involving multiple entities to protect health and minimize suffering. However, the rarity of such emergencies presents a barrier to gathering observational data about the effectiveness of the public health response before such events occur. For this reason, public health practitioners increasingly have relied on simulated emergencies, known as "exercises" as proxies to test their emergency capabilities. However, the formal evaluation of performance in these exercises, historically has been inconsistent, and there is little research to describe how data acquired from simulated emergencies actually support conclusions about the quality of the public health emergency response system. Over the past six years, we have designed and evaluated more than seventy public health emergency exercises, collaborating with public health agencies, hospitals and others to test a wide variety of systems and their capabilities. Using the data and experience that we gathered, we have developed a conceptual framework that describes the essential elements necessary to consider when applying performance measurement science to public health emergency exercises. We suggest that this framework may assist practitioners and researchers who wish to better measure performance in exercises and to improve public health emergency preparedness.
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