School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Int J Public Health. 2012 Feb;57(1):159-66. doi: 10.1007/s00038-011-0261-9. Epub 2011 May 4.
Recent international events including the H1N1 influenza pandemic and the rising incidence of West Nile Virus throughout North America have brought critical attention to the Canadian public health system and how prepared the system is to respond to various types of contemporary public health threats. The current work assessed the association of organizational jurisdiction, organizational attributes, and training opportunities with three different measures of public health preparedness in the province of Alberta, Canada.
Organizational representatives involved in the delivery of public health systems completed an online questionnaire that asked about organizational attributes and training opportunities available to employees, their perception of organizational preparedness, and their connections to other organizations in Alberta.
Findings revealed that (1) perceived human and material resources preparedness was associated with training opportunities, (2) perceived informational needs was associated with organizational size, and (3) whether an organization exercised their written preparedness plan in 2006 was associated with organizational jurisdiction.
These findings help fill a gap in the literature with respect to identifying how organizational characteristics are associated with different aspects of preparedness.
最近发生的国际事件，包括 H1N1 流感大流行和北美西尼罗河病毒发病率的上升，使加拿大公众健康系统受到了严格关注，以及该系统在应对各种当代公共卫生威胁方面的准备情况。本研究评估了组织管辖权、组织属性和培训机会与加拿大艾伯塔省三种不同公共卫生准备措施之间的关联。
参与公共卫生系统提供的组织代表完成了在线问卷调查，其中询问了员工可获得的组织属性和培训机会、他们对组织准备情况的看法以及他们与艾伯塔省其他组织的联系。
研究结果表明：（1）感知的人力和物质资源准备情况与培训机会有关，（2）感知的信息需求与组织规模有关，（3）组织在 2006 年是否实施了书面准备计划与组织管辖权有关。
这些发现有助于填补文献中的空白，确定组织特征如何与准备工作的不同方面相关联。
