Deck 12: Developing a Public Health Emergency Operations Center

Question 1

What type of plan would consider what would happen if a facility was compromised and leadership had to move to a new location?

A) Emergency Response Plan
B) Continuity of Operations Plan
C) Incident Response Plan
D) Emergency Evacuation Plan

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

A) Inter-Agency Standing Committee
B) Public Health Emergency Operations Center Network
C) Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement
D) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

Answer 2

C

Question 3

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?

A) United Nations
B) World Health Organization
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) Federal Emergency Response Agency

Answer 3

C

Question 4

When determining whether or not the organization can meet the target time, what can be conducted to test the actions of organization to determine if the organization has the capability to conduct emergency operations coordination?

A) Tabletop discussions
B) Drills or exercises
C) Training seminars
D) Risk assessments

Question 5

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?

A) Competence and communication
B) Discovery and dissemination
C) Information and recommendations
D) Leadership and organization

Question 6

The emergency operations center is responsible for the strategic or operational overview of the incident.

Question 7

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

Question 8

The core capabilities of the national emergency management level are organized into the mission areas.

Question 9

The ICP provides a central location where the identification, organization, collaboration, and coordination of resources can be accomplished, as well as a location for communications, collaboration, and coordination of public health assets during an incident or event.

Question 10

A public health emergency operations center organizes itself via the IMS structure, which provides a management structure that results in better and more efficient decision-making and use of resources.

Question 11

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

A) American Red Cross
B) National Institutes of Health
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) Federal Emergency Management Agency

Question 12

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

A) United Nations
B) World Health Organization
C) National Institutes of Health
D) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 13

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

A) American Red Cross
B) National Institutes of Health
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) Federal Emergency Management Agency

Question 14

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

A) Public Information and Warning
B) Forensics and Attribution
C) Intelligence and Information Sharing
D) Community Resilience

Question 15

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?

A) Planning
B) Community Resilience
C) Operational Coordination
D) Public Information and Warning

Question 16

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.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

For the international audience, there is no global emergency management entity; therefore, health-related emergency management generally falls under the purview of WHO.

Question 20

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

Question 21

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?

A) American Red Cross
B) National Institutes of Health
C) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
D) Federal Emergency Management Agency

Question 22

For the international audience, health-related emergency management generally falls under the purview of what organization?

A) United Nations
B) World Health Organization
C) National Institutes of Health
D) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 23

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?

A) Inter-Agency Standing Committee
B) Public Health Emergency Operations Center Network
C) Emergency Response Network
D) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

Question 24

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?

A) Inter-Agency Standing Committee
B) Public Health Emergency Operations Center Network
C) Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement
D) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

Question 25

What does the Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement ask its partners to do in exchange for funding programs?

A) Develop training curriculum
B) Conduct exercises
C) Assist in all public health emergencies
D) Contribute to the Strategic National Stockpile

Question 26

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.

Question 27

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.

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

The idea behind the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement is that partners receive funding in exchange for concentrating efforts on an agreed path.