New York State Local Health Department Preparedness for and Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An In-Progress Review.

ABSTRACT: A mixed-methods approach was taken to describe lessons learned by local health department leaders during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State and to document leaders' assessments of their departments' emergency preparedness capabilities and capacities. Leaders participating in a survey rated the effectiveness of their department's capabilities and capacities in administrative and public health preparedness, epidemiology, and communications on a scale from 1 to 5; those partaking in focus groups answered open-ended questions about the same 4 topics. Subjects rated intragovernmental activities most effective ( = 4.41, SD = 0.83) and reported receiving assistance from other county agencies. They rated level of supplies least effective ( = 3.03, SD = 1.01), describing lo

SUBMITTER: Ravenhall S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011512 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May-Jun 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature