We then present eight different aspects of CCE strategies: aims; type of activity; participants; preparedness; methods of engagement; methods of evaluation; barriers and facilitators.
"It's an emergency-preparedness method we came up with in high school," Shoshana says.
Virtualization offers an effective solution for disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness over traditional methods.
A resilience-based response to El Niño has also been proposed for El Salvador, which seeks to strengthen local capacity on preparedness and adaptation methods.
Medium, or informational support, included telephone or e-mail consultation regarding bioterrorism, laboratory methods, and preparedness.
A key challenge would be to employ such methods in preparedness for future epidemics, for instance.
The checklist proved to be an important novel method ensuring the preparedness of HCWs when managing patients suspected for EVD.
However, despite efforts to support preparedness, no universally accepted, organized method of evaluating preparedness exists, and concerns have been raised that implementation of many national strategic plans may be unrealistic (9, 10 ).
To guide national public health bioterrorism preparedness and response efforts, a method was sought for assessing potential biological threat agents that would provide a reviewable, reproducible means for standardized evaluations of these threats.
These categories are interdiction (a practically framed summary), denial of access to methods of bioterrorism, preparedness (i.e., detection and response), and nonproliferation regimens.
