Informe Quincenal Epidemiológico Nacional (IQEN) No. 3; Implementación del Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia en Salud pública COE-ESP del Instituto Nacional de Salud, Colombia, 2017 / Biweekly National Epidemiological Report
The Center of Emergency Operations in Public Health (COE-ESP), of the National Institute of Health (INS) of Colombia, is a strategy with the principles of the World Health Organization (WHO) to optimize the planning of preparedness actions and response in outbreak situations or to any event that may constitute a public healthrisk. An adequate physical infrastructure, a trained human resource and the management by processes of a structure of an Incident Command System, allow to identify, assess and modify a potential risk situation. The present study aims to describe the events managed as a response to situations of risk in public health