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Division 2.2.2 Generic preparedness and response (Article 3.2.a., Annex — points 2.1., 2.2., 2.3., 2.4.)

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Actions should aim to improve health sector preparedness for crisis situations and foster intersectoral collaboration (e.g. with civil protection, food and animal sectors) to ensure a coherent response to a crisis. Activities should in particular focus on supporting risk and crisis management and risk communication aspects. Of particular interest are:

  • activities that support the implementation of generic preparedness planning. This can mean linking hospitals to prepare for mass events, management plan for mass burn accidents, establishing platforms for training and communication and crisis management and medical intelligence initiatives. Furthermore, activities are needed to support traceability, logistics and distribution, transportation issues, psychological effects of crises, and application of new diagnostics;

  • activities that support capacity building for joint law enforcement and health authority operations;

  • activities that support capacity building and implementation needed to comply with the International Health Regulations adopted by the World Health Assemblyf1;

  • the use of innovative IT tools for health threat analysis, such as geographic information systems (GIS), spatial-temporal analysis, novel early warning and forecasting schemes, automated analysis and exchange of diagnostic data.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

See http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA58/WHA58_3-en.pdf

Notes on Division 2

Footnotes

f1

Decision No 1513/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 (OJ L 232, 29.8.2002, p. 1).

f2

Refer also to FP6 Scientific Support to Policies, 5th Call, SSP-5A Areas 2.1 & 2.2.

See: http://fp6.cordis.lu/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP6ActivityCallsPage&ID_ACTIVITY=500

f3

Council Decision 2002/834/EC of 30 September 2002 adopting a specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration ‘Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area’ (2002-2006) (OJ L 294, 29.10.2002, p. 1).

f4

The CORDIS web site links to the FP6 Priority 1 is http://www.cordis.lu/lifescihealth/ssp.htm

Notes on Division 2.2

Footnotes

f1

Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 1998 setting up a network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the Community (OJ L 268, 3.10.1998, p. 1).

2000/57/EC: Commission Decision of 22 December 1999 on the early warning and response system for the prevention and control of communicable diseases under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(1999) 4016) (OJ L 21, 26.1.2000, p. 32).

2000/96/EC: Commission Decision of 22 December 1999 on the communicable diseases to be progressively covered by the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(1999) 4015) (OJ L 28, 3.2.2000, p. 50).

2002/253/EC: Commission Decision of 19 March 2002 laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2002) 1043) (OJ L 86, 3.4.2002, p. 44).

f2

Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 establishing a European Centre for disease prevention and control (OJ L 142, 30.4.2004, p. 1).

f3

See http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_threats/Bioterrorisme/bioterrorism01_en.pdf