- What are Health Drills and their benefits
Many countries of the world hold health drills to check the preparedness of their health system to deal with any kind of health emergency arising in the country.
Drills provide an opportunity for multiple sectors to practice, test and evaluate their response to all types of public health emergencies. The information from these Drills can be used to refine and improve preparedness plans.
- Need for Health Drills
All countries devise different policies on how to handle their matters. These policies further administer the wealth allocated to various sectors of the country’s management. Some states focus on education, some on investing in small businesses, some emphasize public health, etc. It all depends on what the government bodies deem to be more important and worthy of attention.
Public health is the overall science behind refining quality of life, avoiding disease, and lengthening lifespans. Countries introduce differing public health policies to ensure that the general standard of living has improved in society.
Even if there is a basic health system in a country ,there is a need for cohesion between them which can only be achieved by performing health drills , which create a real time scenario of health emergency so that the shortcomings in health system can be identified and work can be done to overcome it.
- Conclusions
These experiences suggest that drills can be a valuable, low-burden tool to improve emergency preparedness and response in countries around the world. They also demonstrate that countries can work together to develop and conduct successful exercises designed to improve regional preparedness to public health threats. The development of standardized evaluation methods for drills may be an additional tool to help focus the actions to be taken as a result of the drill and to improve future drills. Drills show great promise as tools to improve public health preparedness across sectors and countries.
