Sentence examples for preparedness capabilities from inspiring English sources

Iran simply lacks the civil preparedness capabilities to respond to a tragedy on the scale of Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Working with the department, facility operators have made considerable investments to enhance physical security at these facilities, including strengthening law enforcement coordination, improving access control, implementing detection technologies and increasing response preparedness capabilities.

(1) Improving State and local preparedness capabilities by upgrading State and local surveillance epidemiology, assisting in the development of response plans, assuring adequate staffing and training of health professionals to diagnose and care for victims of bioterrorism, extending the electronics communications networks and training personnel, and improving public health laboratories.

Meeting the immediate food, water and shelter needs of millions of people simultaneously exceeds the preparedness capabilities of these countries.

Which emergency preparedness capabilities were activated by entities in the medical and health system in response to the exercise scenario?

The occurrence of the 2009 influenza pandemic is likely to have contributed to the gains made in pandemic preparedness capabilities during the study period since the greatest improvements in scores were observed between 2008 and 2010.

The Chinese Government has carried out a series of emergency preparedness education and training programmes to improve the emergency preparedness capability of rural public health personnel nationwide.

Since the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian influenza, improving the emergency preparedness capability of rural public health personnel has become a new priority in building the infrastructure needed to address public health emergencies.

This demonstrates an instance when a wildfire agency defines target conditions of preparedness and capability below the large fire-disaster levels.

Evaluation of exercises and events must be carefully conducted to minimise the risk of creating an optimistic bias that overestimates future response preparedness and capability, particularly if a real event has not constituted a major test of the response system (Paton et al. 1998a).

Ten years of NH syndromic surveillance tool development has established a critical biosurveillance infrastructure with emergency preparedness response capability during disease outbreaks and natural disasters.