title: Analysis of good practice of public health Emergency Operations Centers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the public health Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs)in the US, the European Union, the UK and Australia, and summarize the good practice for the improvement of National Health Emergency Response Command Center in Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review was conducted to explore the EOCs of selected countries.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study focused on EOC function, organizational structure, human resources and information management. The selected EOCs had the basic EOC functions of coordinating and commanding as well as the public health related functions such as monitoring the situation, risk assessment, and epidemiological briefings. The organizational structures of the EOCs were standardized, scalable and flexible. Incident Command System was the widely applied organizational structure with a strong preference. The EOCs were managed by a unit of emergency management during routine time and surge staff were engaged upon emergencies. The selected EOCs had clear information management framework including information collection, assessment and dissemination.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The performance of National Health Emergency Response Command Center can be improved by learning from the good practice of the selected EOCs, including setting clear functions, standardizing the organizational structure, enhancing the human resource capacity and strengthening information management.
authors: Department of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province 250012, China.
authors: Min
authors: M
authors: Xu
authors: Department of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province 250012, China. Electronic address: yjxumin@163.com.
authors: Shi-Xue
authors: SX
authors: Li
keywords: Command; Communication; Coordination; Emergency operations center; Public health