Introduction - Why plan for an influenza pandemic
Part 1: Australia's Health Plan for Pandemic InfluenzaPart 2: How individuals can help control the spread of the virusPart 3: More information for decision makers and health professionalsMaintaining good health will reduce unnecessary demands on the health system. Campaigns may be run to promote important healthy living activities (e.g. food hygiene).
The DELAY phase will be an opportune time for individuals to consider their overall health, current medications required and vaccination status and seek medical advice if concerned.
Preventative services deemed to be non life-saving or non-critical in the short term may be suspended until after the pandemic has been brought under control.
| PHASE | HEALTH ACTION |
| ALERT | Prepare policy |
| DELAY | Enhance certain preventative services, so they can be scaled back in subsequent phases
Get ready to reorganise preventative services |
| CONTAIN | Implement reorganisation of preventative services |
| SUSTAIN | |
| CONTROL | Implement measures for transitioning preventative services to meet anticipated needs during the recovery phase
Evaluate effectiveness of measures |
| RECOVER | Get ready to re-implement effective measures if a subsequent wave is imminent
Implement measures to restore preventative services |
| Linked document | Strategy for Prioritising Preventative Services (under development) |
This information is current for 03 September, 2010
This information was issued on 05 December, 2008
Level of Pandemic Threat
PROTECT Phase
