Topic?		Title: Planning guide for public health offices
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Coordination

☐   Situation-dependent decision on internal management structure

☐   Coordination of measures

☐   Documentation and evaluation

☐   Ongoing evaluation of the incident

☐   Demobilisation

Risk management

☐   Risk assessment 

HR management

☐   Increase human resources (e.g. redeploy personnel from areas which now tie up fewer staff due to suspension of elective admissions; include medical students in their final year of training etc.)

☐   Exclude staff with symptoms from patient care

Communications

☐   Risk and crisis communication

☐   Internal communication within the municipality

☐   Public information

☐   Prepare press work professionally, possibly set up hotline 

Outbreak investigation 

☐   Occupational safety and health, ensure provision of personal protective equipment

☐   Routine epidemiological surveillance

☐   Identify contacts, categorise contacts

☐   Define anti-epidemic measures pursuant to IfSG

☐   Order diagnostic measures and decide on scope of investigation

☐   Make arrangements for sampling and sample transport

☐   Protective measures to reduce contacts

☐   Organise and monitor the patient

☐   Define and monitor isolation arrangements 

☐   Decide on nature and scope of disinfection measures and their monitoring

☐   Decide on decontamination measures, if applicable 

Advice

☐   Advise affected persons on what to do

☐   Inform and advise other public authorities, institutions and the public

☐   Set up hotline

REGULATORY TASKS

☐   Ordering of isolation by the medical officer

☐   Ordering of autopsy, certification of death, oversight of transport of corpses and cremation

☐   Ordering of prohibitions on activities, participation and visits

☐   Ordering of quarantine and isolation

☐   Disposal management

☐   Possibly coordination of vaccinations

☐   Possibly organisation of post-exposure prophylaxis

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