Whole-of-society pandemic readiness

These guidelines address the need to prepare the whole of society, beyond the

health care sector, for pandemic influenza. The primary aim of this document is to support

integrated planning and preparations for pandemic influenza across all sectors of society,

including public and private sector organizations and essential services. These guidelines

focus on non-health sector mitigation actions and aim to help WHO member states in the

process of revising their existing national pandemic preparedness plans to better include all

sectors of society.