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Guidelines for Reports on Health Crises and Critical Health Events

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Per Kulling ,
Marvin Birnbaum ,
Virginia Murray  and
Gerald Rockenschaub
Per Kulling*
Affiliation:
Emerit Seconded National Expert, Health and Consumers Directorate General, European Commission
Marvin Birnbaum
Affiliation:
Editor-in Chief, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Virginia Murray
Affiliation:
Professor, Consultant Medical Toxicologist and Environmental Public Health, Centre for Radiation, Chemicals and Environmental Hazards, London, Health Protection Agency, UK
Gerald Rockenschaub
Affiliation:
Regional Adviser, Disaster Preparedness & Response WHO Regional Office for Europe
*
[email protected]
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The proposed guidelines for a common structure for reports on health crises and critical health events are an attempt of capturing the experiences gained and a further step for promoting a standardized methodology for sharing results and experiences. Such a common and standardized approach will facilitate the analysis and comparison of findings in order to improve preparedness planning and response and advance international collaboration and learning. If future reporting follows common standards, then the documented findings would be comparable and could be used to learn and apply lessons within an individual field of activity and to apply those lessons learned also to other related preparedness activities. It could also facilitate the implementation of joint activities and joint reports involving different sectors.

Keywords

critical health eventdisasterguidelineshealth crisislessons identifiedlessons learnedlessons observed
Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 377 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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