Ongoing preparedness and continued preventative interventions aimed towards population groups at high risk and practices identified by this study will be essential in reducing the effect of future epizootics on human populations.
Ongoing preparedness activities for the upcoming cyclone season include: disaster risk reduction (DRR) training for local education authorities and school-aged children, strengthening child-protection networks to report or address cases, DRR training for WASH stakeholders and replenishment of pre-positioned stocks to target 20,000 people.
As part of its ongoing Emergency Preparedness & Response programme, UNICEF has been supporting Government institutions in pre-positioning emergency supplies, including cholera prevention and response equipment and consumables, such as water bladders, chlorine, cleaning tools and hygiene education materials.
Ongoing assessments of nurses' preparedness in quality and safety competencies are absent from prelicensure education programs.
If applied, ongoing lack of provider preparedness for the suffering of dying patients who do not receive care may lead to moral distress (Barilan et al. 2014; Baruch 2014; Burstein 2009; Cereste 2011; Downar et al. 2010; Caro et al. 2011; Fowler et al. 2014; Gwyther et al. 2009; Goodman and Black 2015; IRIN 2014; MSF 2014a, b, c, d, e; Powell et al. 2017).
Further, larger assessments are needed both before and after specific pandemic influenza awareness programs as part of the ongoing process of pandemic preparedness.
"Preparedness is on-going, repetitive, and mundane".
Worldwide efforts are ongoing to improve influenza pandemic preparedness, including from the perspective of the clinical virology laboratory.
Unfortunately, pregnancy issues are often not well addressed in outbreak investigations, ongoing prospective studies, or emergency preparedness planning.
For optimal preparedness, surveillance is an ongoing process, not one that is implemented only in times of public health emergency.
The third modification, also in step 1b, accommodates the use of projected harms, a fundamental component of climate and health preparedness, as well as ongoing surveillance data, the more common approach to prioritizing extant public health concerns.
