Health Protection Principles
Planning and preparedness
Prevention and early detection
Investigation and control
communicable
preparedness, resilience and response
environmental
partnership working
strategy development
risk register maintenance
prevent health risks
mitigate health risks
develop local plans in context of national
partnership working
local and national risk register management
development of incident plans
testing of incident plans
Pathway
Receptor
Source
eg people
eg skin contact, airborne agent
chemical spill, flood, infectious person or animal
requires all three stages for there to be a risk
communicable
preparedness, resilience and response
environmental
prevention = statutory risk assessments, eg for asbestos
early detection = radon surveys or air quality monitoring
health and safety, eg fire alarm monitoring
early detection
preventative infection control
vaccination and immunisation
clean water
safe waste disposal, include household waste
healthcare practices
screening, eg antennal or HOV and HepB programmes
communicable
environmental
preparedness, resilience and response
this was all thought to be well prepared in the UK pre-COVID!!!
investigation = including sampling; complex and drawn out
control = PH communication
investigation = location, nature of incident, hazard, risk, accessibility and response (or potential of all of these)
control = timely PH advice
could be non-health
infectious disease notification