Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240070281
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
“Crafting the mosaic”: a framework for resilient surveillance for respiratory viruses of epidemic and pandemic potential
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240070281
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Summary report on the WHO workshop on estimation of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease burden based on RSV Surveillance of Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-23 June 2023
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240092846
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A checklist for respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240084517
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Guidance on development and implementation of a national deployment and vaccination plan for vaccines against pandemic influenza and other respiratory viruses of pandemic potential
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240084878
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Vaccines are powerful weapons in the fight against pandemic viruses as shown by responses to both the 2009 H1N1 influenza and the COVID-19 pandemics. However, planning for accessing, allocating and deploying vaccines in a pandemic situation is a complex endeavour, beset with multiple challenges at all levels – local, regional and global. The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners have prepared this revised guidance document to assist countries update their national deployment and vaccination plans (NDVPs) by leveraging global learnings from past pandemic responses, including the recent COVID-19 vaccination effort. The development and testing of a NDVP would not only advance pandemic preparedness efforts but would also have benefits in terms of increasing national capabilities to manage other health emergencies which require emergency vaccination campaigns.
Defining collaborative surveillance: a core concept for strengthening the global architecture for health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience (HEPR)
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240074066
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The complex challenges highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and other major health emergencies emphasize the need to rethink our approach to surveillance, while building upon the momentum of substantive investments in public health capacity in recent years. At the 75th World Health Assembly in May 2022, WHO set out a harmonizing framework to strengthen the global architecture for health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience (HEPR). Under the proposed global architecture, the ability to effectively prevent, prepare for, detect, respond to, and recover from health emergencies at subnational, national, regional and global levels depend on the operational readiness and capacities in five interconnected systems: collaborative surveillance, community protection, safe and scalable clinical care, access to countermeasures, and emergency coordination. This document defines the collaborative surveillance concept—proposing a conceptual model, dimensions across which collaboration should occur to enable multi-source and multisectoral surveillance, key objectives and concrete capabilities for how countries, with the support of WHO and partners, can further advance surveillance capabilities, and address fragmented and insufficient capacity. The collaborative surveillance concept was developed to support all stakeholders working on surveillance.
Lessons Learned in Analytics from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Eric S. HallPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832554717
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
At the beginning of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the US in multiple waves, health systems had to rapidly develop systems for tracking various aspects related to managing the pandemic. This included not just overall trends in incidence, hospitalizations, and outcomes; but also metrics related to the response. COVID-19 was the first pandemic in the United States since the widespread adoption of electronic health records incentivized by the Meaningful Use program. As a result, the availability of health information was much broader than in any previous pandemic. The widespread impact of COVID-19 also meant that every healthcare institution was affected, and was tracking data related to the pandemic in some form. There has been more focused activity with data and analytics regarding COVID-19 than we have ever had with any other disease, including important advances as well as technical and regulatory obstacles.
Strategic Framework for Enhancing Prevention and Control of mpox 2024-2027
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240092900
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Strategic Framework for enhancing control and achieving elimination of human-to[1]human transmission of mpox (2024-2027) is a guide to Member States on the next phase of the global mpox response and to enhance preparedness for future outbreaks. During the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) for the global mpox outbreak (July 2022-May 2023), the WHO supported Member States in taking action to stop the outbreak of mpox. In the transition from emergency to long-term response, WHO now recommends that all countries develop and implement plans for mpox control and the elimination of person-to-person transmission of this infectious disease, while continuing to ensure mitigation of zoonotic transmission. This strategic framework supports the development of these strategies.
Pandemic influenza severity assessment (PISA)
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240093885
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The updated WHO pandemic influenza severity assessment (PISA) framework set out in this document provides a systematic approach for interpreting data collected through existing surveillance systems and improving their usefulness for risk communication and decision-making. The approach enables the severity of current influenza and syndromic respiratory illness activity to be assessed relative to previous years by using historical data to set thresholds that then allow for the qualitative categorization of such activity. PISA is designed to be implemented continuously based on stable/ routine reporting systems, enabling activity during epidemic and pandemic periods to be compared. Information to assess severity especially early and throughout the course of a pandemic will also be provided through investigations, studies and modelling.
Preparedness and resilience for emerging threats. Module 1
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240084673
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Best practices for the design, implementation, reporting and analysis of participatory surveillance for influenza-like illness
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9240095039
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Epidemiological information on influenza comes from multiple sources. Participatory surveillance for influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) is one approach for gathering information from the community to monitor trends in influenza, while also helping to inform other important public health issues. The approach should be considered to be complementary to other sources of influenza surveillance information. One advantage of participatory surveillance is that information comes from both asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals, and from symptomatic individuals who may not initially seek health care. Information may also come from members of the population who may be underrepresented in traditional facility-based surveillance. Where participatory surveillance for influenza and ILI has been implemented experience indicates that such systems are accurate, flexible, cost-effective and robust with regard to changes in health care seeking behaviour. However, there are also a number of limitations, challenges and biases that must be taken into consideration. This WHO document provides globally applicable guidance on implementing participatory surveillance for influenza and ILI based on expert input and abundant experience from countries in which such surveillance has been implemented. The document sets out best practices for public health officials to consider, either when looking to implement a participatory surveillance system or when making changes to an existing system.