Measuring preparedness has been a challenging concept as long as preparedness has been a focus of public health. Preparedness is a dynamic and complex field, requiring scalable and diverse capabilities and functional partnerships across and beyond the field of public health. It is particularly difficult to measure, in part, because it is hard to know how systems will function in an emergency without an actual emergency, but research is often the last thing on anyone's mind during an actual response.
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