Open AccessThe Situation Room: A Step by Step Procedure toward Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
Author(s) -
Miguel Ángel Castro-Jiménez,
Lina M. Vera-Cala,
Gloria Rey-Benito
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the journal of infection in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2036-6590
pISSN - 1972-2680
DOI - 10.3855/jidc.257
Subject(s) - pandemic , public health , preparedness , context (archaeology) , environmental health , influenza pandemic , business , event (particle physics) , pandemic influenza , covid-19 , medical emergency , public relations , political science , medicine , geography , disease , nursing , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , archaeology , pathology , quantum mechanics , law
In the context of the public health surveillance, the situation room might be playing an interesting role as a strategy for early alert and follow-up of a specific public health event and its determinants. The implementation and proper functioning of an influenza situation room monitoring seasonal and pandemic influenza or any other public health event could help to mitigate the impact of the next pandemic on public health in any country regardless of its level of economic development. This paper is aimed to suggest some basic steps for implementing an Influenza Situation Room as a strategy of prevention of diseases with potential to cause human pandemics and its mitigation if it has already occurred.
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