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d. The completeness and quality of these national preparedness plans were assessed based on the World Health Organization's (WHO) preparedness checklist,6 addressing levels of:
  • Planning and coordination
  • Surveillance
  • Public health interventions (public health control measures, vaccines and antivirals)
  • Health system response
  • Maintenance of essential services
  • Communication
  • Putting plans into action

Potential gaps and weaknesses were identified in the Asia Pacific Region. For example some countries organise their responses by pandemic phases differently from the WHO pandemic phases which could cause confusion during the management of a regional or global crisis. A further gap is that the maintenance of essential services is not addressed fully in several plans.

Dr Richard Coker said: 'Many of the gaps common in this region, such as identifying priority groups for antivirals and vaccines, planning for essential services and understanding how healthcare systems might respond during a pandemic are also common to the European region. Opportunities exist for co-operative relations between countries to be developed and built upon in influenza preparedness'.

The LSHTM researchers acknowledge that only those plans available for analysis at the time of research (February 2006) were included. The analysis does not include plans under review, amendment or pending finalisation.


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Contact: Lindsay Wright
lindsaywright@lshtm.ac.uk
44-020-792-72073
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
3-May-2006


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