Defining and identifying the critical elements of operational readiness for public health emergency events: a rapid scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

COVID-19 showed that countries must strengthen their operational readiness (OPR) capabilities to respond to an imminent pandemic threat rapidly and proactively. We conducted a rapid scoping evidence review to understand the definition and critical elements of OPR against five core sub-systems of a new framework to strengthen the global architecture for Health Emergency Preparedness Response and Resilience (HEPR).

Methods

We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science, targeted repositories, websites, and grey literature databases for publications between 1 January 2010 and 29 September 2021 in English, German, French or Afrikaans. Included sources were of any study design, reporting OPR, defined as immediate actions taken in the presence of an imminent threat,

SUBMITTER: English R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11367384 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature