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PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE ACTIVATION RESPONSE PLAN OBJECTIVES
The overall goal of a Public Health Workforce Activation Response Plan is to strengthen a public health department’s ability to effectively sort and shift personnel in times of emergency. It is important to prioritize the planning objectives. Key objectives defined at the start to organize the work include:
- To profile surge response conditions
- To assess surge response team and continuity staffing needs
- To develop activation and call-out processes
- To define training requirements and curricula
- To define communications needs and protocols
PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE ACTIVATION
Workforce Activation Planning
PLANNNG OBJECTIVES
WHY A PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE ACTIVATION RESPONSE PLAN? The success of any emergency response will depend on how speedily and effectively a public health department can redeploy human resources. Re-deployed personnel will staff surge response teams and ensure the continuity of essential departmental functions. Re-deployed staff should participate on pre-defined emergency response teams for which they are properly trained. Public Health Workforce Activation planning enables an organization to define surge response conditions, develop surge response teams, define activation and call-out processes as well as establish training and communications systems. This will enable any department to effectively “sort and shift” available personnel in times of emergency.
Workforce Activation Planning
PLANNNG OBJECTIVES
WHY A PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE ACTIVATION RESPONSE PLAN? The success of any emergency response will depend on how speedily and effectively a public health department can redeploy human resources. Re-deployed personnel will staff surge response teams and ensure the continuity of essential departmental functions. Re-deployed staff should participate on pre-defined emergency response teams for which they are properly trained. Public Health Workforce Activation planning enables an organization to define surge response conditions, develop surge response teams, define activation and call-out processes as well as establish training and communications systems. This will enable any department to effectively “sort and shift” available personnel in times of emergency.
