Introduction of the Health Emergency Preparedness Self-Assessment tool of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

In June 2018, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published a Health Emergency Preparedness Self-Assessment (HEPSA) tool on its website. The tool is for all European Union (EU) Member States and addresses their health emergency workers in seven aspects in order to conduct comprehensive and rapid assessment to identify problems in health emergencies and to improve health emergency preparedness continuously. This article gives a brief introduction on this tool and provides references to public health workers in China.