Developing early warning, response, and surveillance systems, coupled with planning and development to enhance community resilience, can reduce the vulnerability of older adults and help them avoid or mitigate the impacts of climate stressors.
While considerable progress has been made in understanding the risks of extreme ambient temperatures and how changing weather patterns could affect the geographic range, seasonality, and incidence of some infectious diseases, much more needs to be learned to develop exposure-response relationships to underpin effective public health interventions, including early warning and response systems.
Washington now proposes joint early warning and response planning centers – an idea originally suggested by Moscow in 2007.
Early warning early response.
Efforts would now include detailed risk assessment, improving early warning and response capacities, impact-based forecasting, better resource management, knowledge creation and sharing, building public commitment, and developing supportive institutional frameworks.
In summary, the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 2015 helped to widen the remit of DRR activities beyond simply responding to disasters to include detailed risk assessment, improving early warning and response capacities, impact-based forecasting, better resource management, knowledge creation and sharing, building public commitment, and developing supportive institutional frameworks (HIS 2011).
It is advancing by advocating for "data-driven, technology-enhanced early warning and response systems that will allow timely identification of and intervention with children who are veering off the pathways leading to readiness, attendance and summer learning".
Early warning and response systems for emerging zoonoses require effective cross-jurisdictional and interdisciplinary collaboration [ 21].
Clear quantitative definitions of an outbreak are a prerequisite for effective outbreak early warning and response.
