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Exercise Planning and

Principles in Public Health

mergency preparedness exercises should be based on the NRP and NIMS, which focus
on the public health responsibilities for emergency response. Exercises should be consis-
E tent with HSEEP, which stipulates federal doctrine as a framework for all emergency
response sectors and offers useful guidelines and formats for exercise development. Efforts
should be made to coordinate exercise activities at the state and federal levels and with other
partners and response sectors.

Exercise planning must include criteria that will allow assessment of how well an LPHA per-
forms under the conditions of a specific public health emergency or disaster.They define vari-
ous levels of response performance. Criteria define various levels of response performance.
Measures of these criteria will provide the basis for additional planning, training, conducting,
and evaluation of emergency response operations (Appendix B).

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