Public health emergency preparedness for infectious disease emergencies: a scoping review of recent evidence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to demonstrate the risks and profound health impacts that result from infectious disease emergencies. Emergency preparedness has been defined as the knowledge, capacity and organizational systems that governments, response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals develop to anticipate, respond to, or recover from emergencies. This scoping review explored recent literature on priority areas and indicators for public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) with a focus on infectious disease emergencies.

Methods

Using scoping review methodology, a comprehensive search was conducted for indexed and grey literature with a focus on records published from 2017 to 2020 onward, respectively. Records were included if they: (a) des

SUBMITTER: Lee JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9979131 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature