Public Health Preparedness Capabilities:
National Standards for State and Local Planning
One of the nation's key preparedness challenges has been determining appropriate state and local public health preparedness priorities. To assist state and local public health departments in their strategic planning, CDC developed 15 capabilities to serve as national public health preparedness standards.
CDC applied a systematic approach to developing the public health preparedness capabilities. The content is based on evidence-informed documents, relevant preparedness literature, and subject matter expertise gathered from across the federal government and the state and local practice community.
CDC's Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning now provides a guide that state and local jurisdictions can use to better organize their work, plan their priorities, and decide which capabilities they have the resources to build or sustain. The capabilities also help ensure that federal preparedness funds are directed to priority areas within individual jurisdictions.

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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Using this Document for Strategic Planning
At-A-Glance: Capability Definitions, Functions, and Associated Performance Measures
Capabilities (in alphabetical order)
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
For questions, contact 2011PHEPCA@cdc.gov
National Standards for State and Local Planning
One of the nation's key preparedness challenges has been determining appropriate state and local public health preparedness priorities. To assist state and local public health departments in their strategic planning, CDC developed 15 capabilities to serve as national public health preparedness standards.CDC applied a systematic approach to developing the public health preparedness capabilities. The content is based on evidence-informed documents, relevant preparedness literature, and subject matter expertise gathered from across the federal government and the state and local practice community.
CDC's Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning now provides a guide that state and local jurisdictions can use to better organize their work, plan their priorities, and decide which capabilities they have the resources to build or sustain. The capabilities also help ensure that federal preparedness funds are directed to priority areas within individual jurisdictions.

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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Using this Document for Strategic Planning
At-A-Glance: Capability Definitions, Functions, and Associated Performance Measures
Capabilities (in alphabetical order)
- Community Preparedness

- Community Recovery

- Emergency Operations Coordination

- Emergency Public Information and Warning

- Fatality Management

- Information Sharing

- Mass Care

- Medical Countermeasure Dispensing

- Medical Materiel Management and Distribution

- Medical Surge

- Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

- Public Health Laboratory Testing

- Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation

- Responder Safety and Health

- Volunteer Management

Endnotes
Acknowledgements
For questions, contact 2011PHEPCA@cdc.gov