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<td height="30px"><h2><span class="title">Adapting Community Call Centers for Crisis Support</span></h2></td>
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<h2>Chapter 2. Background </h2>
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<h3><a name="Responses" id="Responses"></a>Incorporating Health Call Centers Into Community Emergency Responses</h3>
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<p>The overall benefit to health call center involvement in a community emergency
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is depicted in <a href="callfig1.htm">Figure 1</a>. Once
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an event occurs, media outlets (newspapers, television, radio, Internet) will
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devote much time and effort to reporting on it. The public will get needed
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information about the event from those media sources, but there will be
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limited opportunities to ask questions about how those events pertain to their
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individual circumstances.</p>
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<p>Health call centers (poison control centers, nurse advice lines, and health
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hotlines) have the expert and experienced staff to address the potential
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demand for more information with a range of approaches from recordings to
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speaking with a trained professional. By partnering with public safety and
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public health agencies, health call centers can provide information that
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is accurate, up-to-date, and consistent with official messages. Call centers
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can also collect information for use in situational awareness, from health
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concerns to the development of illness.</p>
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<h3><a name="Concern" id="Concern"></a>Addressing Public Concern</h3>
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<p>Public concern about an event and how it may affect individuals increases
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when it has potential health implications. Our previous research has shown
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that calls to health-related hotlines have ranged from less than 1 percent
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to 25 percent of the affected community's adult population, depending on
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the nature of the event. <a href="callfig2.htm">Figure
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2</a> depicts that concerns for emerging insect-borne
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disease outbreaks in Colorado and New York City (using hotline contacts as
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a percentage of the population) were much lower than concerns for an infectious
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disease outbreak primarily involving children in
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Florida.<sup><a href="call5.htm#ref01">1-5</a></sup></p>
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<p>It has been demonstrated that the public perceives risk differently than
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public health professionals do.<sup><a href="call5.htm#ref04">4</a>,<a href="call5.htm#ref06">6</a></sup> Experiences
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have shown that bioterrorism-related, child-focused, and newly emerging disease
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events, in particular, prompt people to contact call centers. Though it may
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be hard to predict the level of concern for any given health event, research
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in the field of risk communication indicates that certain risk perceptions
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increase levels of fear and concern. Covello, et al, report that levels of
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concern tend to be most intense when the risk is perceived to be involuntary,
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inequitable, not beneficial, not under one's personal control, associated
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with untrustworthy individuals or organizations, and associated with dreaded
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adverse, irreversible
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outcomes.<sup><a href="call5.htm#ref04">4</a></sup></p>
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<h3><a name="HEALTH" id="HEALTH"></a>HEALTH</h3>
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<p>The Rocky Mountain Regional Health Emergency Assistance Line and Triage
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Hub (HEALTH) model was developed as a partial solution to the public health
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communications problems that were recognized in the aftermath of September
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11, 2001 and the concern about anthrax-laced letters distributed through
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the United States Postal Service.</p>
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<p>The HEALTH model presents requirements, specifications, and resources needed for
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developing a public health emergency contact center that is highly integrated with public
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health agencies and that could minimize surges in the demand for health and
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event information during an emergency. The model was designed with medical
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contact centers (such as poison control centers and nurse advice lines) in
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mind as potential implementers, and as the appropriate repositories for the
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creation and maintenance of readiness for providing one-on-one health communication
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in a public health event.</p>
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<p>To further assist other agencies in developing the capabilities and functions of this
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model, especially public health agencies, we created a HEALTH Contact Center
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Assessment Tool Set. The tool set is a Microsoft® Excel workbook that agencies
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can use to assess the potential demand they may face in a health emergency
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event and to determine the resources needed to address this demand. The tool
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set consists of seven simple checklists or spreadsheets, including: </p>
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<ul>
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<li>Instructions.</li>
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<li>Contact Surge Calculator.</li>
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<li>Staffing-Resource Calculator.</li>
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<li>Capital Expense Calculator.</li>
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<li>Technology Expense Calculator.</li>
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<li>Surge Options Matrix.</li>
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<li>Glossary.</li>
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<p>The HEALTH model incorporates the ability to provide one-on-one health information
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using the latest in technology to efficiently handle this demand through
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various communication modalities. The Rocky Mountain Regional HEALTH model
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report and tools are at <a href="/research/health">https://www.ahrq.gov/research/health</a>.</p>
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<h3><a name="HELP" id="HELP"></a>HELP</h3>
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<p>Our poison center established the Health Emergency Line for the Public (HELP)
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pilot program in Colorado to provide information during bioterrorism and
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other public health emergencies. HELP originated as a pilot or proving ground
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for implementing some of the concepts and strategies that were developed
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in the HEALTH model. Since then, it has been continually developed and has
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responded to three major health events in Colorado: the deadliest WNV outbreak
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in the United States (2003), an influenza outbreak with early increased pediatric
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deaths (2003-2004), and an influenza outbreak during a vaccine shortage (2004-2005).
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The HELP program provides a model for disseminating and collecting information
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during health emergencies in partnership with a State health department.</p>
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<p>The HELP service was offered to the public in January 2003 to support a
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statewide smallpox vaccination program for health care volunteers in Colorado.
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The vaccination program finished in March 2003. The HELP program was then
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modified to provide WNV information to the public in anticipation of a second
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season of that outbreak in Colorado. Since July 22, 2003, a toll-free line
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has been available 24 hours a day, featuring current recorded messages and
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Web site referrals for more detailed information. Trained information providers
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are available from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily to answer questions, collect
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demographic data, and provide referrals.</p>
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<p>Recordings are available in English
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and Spanish with additional translation services available for other languages.
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Information providers use FAQ scripts prepared by State health epidemiologists
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to explain symptoms, treatments, and prevention measures to callers. Evolving
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public concerns are identified, and applicable responses are developed within
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48 to 72 hours. The HELP program has expanded information offerings to include
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additional topics such mold, influenza/pneumonia, anthrax/white powder, severe
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acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), hantavirus, tuberculosis, the human strain
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of avian influenza, and ricin. Other topics are added as information needs
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for the public and health providers are identified.</p>
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<p>The HELP program provides the functional platform for piloting and testing
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other call center strategies, technology, and applications to efficiently
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provide information to the public in a health emergency. The technology infrastructure
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and requirements of the HELP program were described previously in the HEALTH
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model report. The essential elements that we have identified from the last
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3 years of operating the HELP program service are addressed later in this
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report and in <a href="callapp3.htm">Appendix 3</a>.</p>
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<p class="size2"><a href="index.html#contents">Return to Contents</a><br /><a href="call3.htm">Proceed to Next Section</a></p>
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