Category A agents definition

Category A agents. Category A agents can create situations that significantly impact community health. Most require broad public health preparedness efforts, such as enhanced surveillance and rapid public health response, particularly if used intentionally or found to be widespread. For this performance measure, awardees should report only for botulism and tularemia. Date of diagnosis – presumptive/clinical: Selection of this case event date type presumes awardees (and LHDs) have or will have a standardized process and defined data field in place in their surveillance system(s) to capture this information. Awardees that have a generic date of diagnosis field on their case report forms or in their electronic disease surveillance systems should be sure they have clearly defined whether this field refers to presumptive/clinical or lab- confirmed diagnosis. Please see definitions section for more information.
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Category A agents. Category A agents can create situations that significantly impact community health. Most require broad public health preparedness efforts, such as enhanced surveillance and rapid public health response, particularly if used intentionally or found to be widespread. For this performance measure, reportable Category A agents include botulism and tularemia.
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Category A agents. [see PHEP 13.1] First report to a public health agency: [see PHEP 13.1] Public health control measures and initiation: This performance measure focuses on the timely initiation of public health control measures. Depending on the disease, measures range from identification (and removal, as feasible) of a source of infection, to immunization or prophylaxis of contacts, to exclusions from child care or food-handling. Awardees have some flexibility to determine which documented actions will count as an apppropriate control measure, though they should use the examples provided in Appendix C as a guide. Important points to note: Pre-Incident  This performance measure is meant to capture initiation of public health control measures, not completion. Core Public  In general, the intent of this performance measure is not to capture the first phone call to a healthcare provider to discuss a case patient, unless that discussion entails recommendations and/or education regarding specific control measures (e.g., calling a parent and/or a day care center to exclude an infectious child from child care due to E. coli or hepatitis A would count). Response  If a health department documents timely initiation of either (a) an appropriate control measure, (b) a recommendation for a control measure, (c) a decision not to initiate a control measure, or (c) inability to initiate a control measure despite an effort to do so, this will meet the intent of the measure and count toward the numerator.  Awardees may wish to consider standardizing an operational definition of initiation. Examples may include date of patient contact or date of interview, as long as these explicitly entail implementation or recommendation of control measures in addition to routine fact-finding.
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Examples of Category A agents in a sentence

  • All recipients and CRI local planning jurisdictions will be required to: • maintain fully developed plans to respond to both EID and Category A agents and • demonstrate readiness for a core set of response activities for both scenarios through some combination of drills, tabletop exercises, and functional exercises.

  • Pre-Incident Awardees are required to provide data on the following diseases according to the specified case classification criteria noted in parentheses: Core Public • Diseases associated with the following Category A agents: o Botulism (Clostridium botulinum), all types excluding infant botulism (confirmed) Response o Tularemia (Francisella tularensis) (confirmed and probable) • E.

  • Pre-Incident Awardees are required to provide data on the following diseases according to the specified case classification criteria noted in parentheses: Core Public  Diseases associated with the following Category A agents: o Botulism (Clostridium botulinum), all types excluding infant botulism (confirmed) Response o Tularemia (Francisella tularensis) (confirmed and probable)  E.

  • Category A agents: Category A agents can create situations that significantly impact community health.

  • Awardees are required to provide data on the following diseases according to the specified case classification criteria noted in parentheses:4 ▪ Diseases associated with the following Category A agents: o Botulism (Clostridium botulinum), all types excluding infant xxxxxxxx0 (confirmed) 4 Source: xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/osels/ph_surveillance/nndss/phs/files/NNDSS_event_code_list_February_2011_07_FINAL.

  • All jurisdictions developed transportation plans for sending Category A agents to the Montana Public Health Laboratory (PHL) that were signed by their local or tribal authorities.

  • All recipients and CRI local planning jurisdictions will be required to:  maintain fully developed plans to respond to both EID and Category A agents and  demonstrate readiness for a core set of response activities for both scenarios through some combination of drills, tabletop exercises, and functional exercises.

  • Awardees are required to provide data on the following diseases according to the specified case classification criteria noted in parentheses:  Diseases associated with the following Category A agents: o Botulism (Clostridium botulinum), all types excluding infant botulism (confirmed) o Tularemia (Francisella tularensis) (confirmed and probable)  E.

  • These threats include viral pathogens known as "Category A" agents, which are considered by the Centers for Disease Control ("CDC") to pose a threat through natural emergence or if weaponized as an agent of bioterrorism.

  • Awardees are required to provide data on the following diseases according to the specified case classification criteria noted in parentheses:4  Diseases associated with the following Category A agents: o Botulism (Clostridium botulinum), all types excluding infant xxxxxxxx0 (confirmed) 4 Source: xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/osels/ph_surveillance/nndss/phs/files/NNDSS_event_code_list_February_2011_07_FINAL.


More Definitions of Category A agents

Category A agents. [see PHEP 13.1] First report to a public health agency: [see PHEP 13.1] Public health control measures and initiation: This performance measure focuses on the timely initiation of public health control measures. Depending on the disease, measures range from identification (and removal, as feasible) of a source of infection, to immunization or prophylaxis of contacts, to exclusions from child care or food-handling. Awardees have some flexibility to determine which documented actions will count as an apppropriate control measure, though they should use the examples provided in Appendix C as a guide. Important points to note: Pre-Incident • This performance measure is meant to capture initiation of public health control measures, not completion. Core Public • In general, the intent of this performance measure is not to capture the first phone call to a healthcare provider to discuss a case patient, unless that discussion entails recommendations and/or education regarding specific control measures (e.g., calling a parent and/or a day care center to exclude an infectious child from child care due to E. coli or hepatitis A would count).
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Related to Category A agents

  • Category 4 Data is data that is confidential and requires special handling due to statutes or regulations that require especially strict protection of the data and from which especially serious consequences may arise in the event of any compromise of such data. Data classified as Category 4 includes but is not limited to data protected by: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Pub. L. 104-191 as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH), 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164; the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. §1232g; 34 CFR Part 99; Internal Revenue Service Publication 1075 (xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/pub/irs-pdf/p1075.pdf); Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration regulations on Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records, 42 CFR Part 2; and/or Criminal Justice Information Services, 28 CFR Part 20.

  • Permanent exclusion means the student is banned forever from attending a public school in the State of Ohio. (See Policy 5610.01)

  • Classroom exclusion means the exclusion of a student from a classroom or instructional or activity area for behavioral violations, subject to the requirements of WAC 392-400-330 and 392-400-335. Classroom exclusion does not include action that results in missed instruction for a brief duration when:

  • eligible Categories means Categories (1), (2) and (3) set forth in the table in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to this Agreement;

  • Attack directed against any civilian population means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack;

  • Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site (or “MMC Site”) means any World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works. A public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server. A “Massive Multiauthor Collaboration” (or “MMC”) contained in the site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC site.

  • frequency ride through as used herein shall mean the ability of a Small Generating Facility to stay connected to and synchronized with the system or equipment of the Transmission Owner and any Affected Systems during system disturbances within a range of under-frequency and over- frequency conditions, in accordance with Good Utility Practice and consistent with any standards and guidelines that are applied to other generating facilities in the Balancing Authority Area on a comparable basis. The term “voltage ride through” as used herein shall mean the ability of a Small Generating Facility to stay connected to and synchronized with the system or equipment of the Transmission Owner and any Affected Systems during system disturbances within a range of under-voltage and over-voltage conditions, in accordance with Good Utility Practice and consistent with any standards and guidelines that are applied to other generating facilities in the Balancing Authority Area on a comparable basis.

  • Total Evaluated CRIS MW means the Additional CRIS MW requested plus either (i) if the Installed Capacity Supplier previously received an exemption under Sections 23.4.5.7.2(b), 23.4.5.7.6(b), 23.4.5.7.7 or 23.4.5.7.8, all prior Additional CRIS MW since the facility was last exempted under Sections 23.4.5.7.2(b), 23.4.5.7.6(b), or 23.4.5.7.8, or (ii) for all other Installed Capacity Suppliers, all MW of Capacity for which an Examined Facility obtained CRIS pursuant to the provisions in ISO OATT Sections 25, 30, or 32 (OATT Attachments S, X, or Z). For purposes of Section 23.4.5 of this Attachment H, “UCAP Offer Reference Level” shall mean a dollar value equal to the projected clearing price for each ICAP Spot Market Auction determined by the ISO on the basis of the applicable ICAP Demand Curve and the total quantity of Unforced Capacity from all Installed Capacity Suppliers in a Mitigated Capacity Zone for the period covered by the applicable ICAP Spot Market Auction. For purposes of Section 23.4.5 of this Attachment H, “Unit Net CONE” shall mean localized levelized embedded costs of a specified Installed Capacity Supplier, including interconnection costs, and for an Installed Capacity Supplier located outside a Mitigated Capacity Zone including embedded costs of transmission service, in either case net of likely projected annual Energy and Ancillary Services revenues, and revenues associated with other energy products (such as energy services and renewable energy credits, as determined by the ISO, translated into a seasonally adjusted monthly UCAP value using an appropriate class outage rate. The Unit Net CONE of an Installed Capacity Supplier that has functions beyond the generation or transmission of power shall include only the embedded costs allocated to the production and transmission of power, and shall not net the revenues from functions other than the generation or transmission of power.