Table 1.

Insights to properly manage a health emergency in Europe.

Insights and Suggestions for Creating A Coordinated Health Emergency Management System in Europe
Establishment of a permanent European infrastructure with the capacity for rapid intervention in the event of a health emergency that may involve more than one European state, with autonomous management of its own budget and funds necessary for intervention and autonomy in operational decision-making, free from the veto of a single state.
Continuous funding and promotion of transnational collaboration, with central governance of emergency management and a task force for rapid local health intervention (“rapid intervention health task force” or RIHTF).
Creation or implementation of central European laboratories for the development of research and prevention, diagnostic and therapeutic methods to combat infectious and/or toxicological agents, or governance of the European network for the surveillance of communicable diseases (ECLDC).
Implementation of the real-time surveillance network, through digital tools and data interoperability, between States and Local Authorities.
Increasing the resilience of national and regional health systems through the development and adoption of predictive models and methodologies for risk assessment and quantification, and the study of harmonized decision-making processes that can be unambiguously adopted across EU countries.