Exam 12: Developing a Public Health Emergency Operations Center

Day-to-day operations of a local public health department typically center around providing public health services such as wellness screening, vaccinations, and environmental health services.

Which of the following provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial partner health departments to assist them in strengthening their ability to prepare for and respond to public health threats?

An emergency operations center has been defined by what agency as a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principals of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions, at a strategic level during an emergency?

Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning, produced by what agency, lays out 15 public health capabilities that state, local, tribal, and territorial partners can use to assist in the development of plans, policies, and procedures to prepare for and respond to public health threats?

An emergency operations center (EOC) is a physical location from which the coordination of information and resources take place in order to support incident management activities.

Domestically, which agency has been administering the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement since 2002?

The emergency operations center is where tactical decisions are made and operations are coordinated.

In most public health emergency operations centers (PHEOCs), there is one person in charge and that is the incident manager.

The overall objective of which core capability of the national emergency level is to establish and maintain a unified and coordinated operational structure and process that appropriately integrates all critical stakeholders and supports the execution of core capabilities?

Which of the following core capabilities of the national emergency management level can be applied to all of the mission areas?

The WHO established which of the following in 2013 to help identify and promote best practices and standards for EOCs as well as provide support for EOC capacity building in WHO member states?

Functions of the emergency operations center could include resource tracking and coordination at the health department level.

In the United States, most of the emergency management guidance come from which agency?

Public health has applied the principals of emergency management in things such as using the ICS principals in developing IMS, substituting command for management with the idea being that public health's greatest product is which of the following?

The Incident Command Post is responsible for the strategic or operational overview of the incident.

The idea behind which of the following is that partners receive funding in exchange for concentrating efforts on an agreed path?

Which agency stepped forward to develop guiding documents on the application of emergency management principals to international public health?

In the world of public health, incident command principals have been used to create an IMS that better fits the philosophy of public health operations.

Most public health leadership comes in the form of emergency department physicians who have been thoroughly trained in emergency management.

Typically, local health departments will coordinate and report information to counties or districts, then to the state, and then to the federal government.