scholarly journals Intervention epidemiology training: a European perspective

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
F van Loock ◽  
Mike Rowland ◽  
T Grein ◽  
A Moren
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Epidemiological Surveillance ◽  
Public Health Action ◽  
Health Action ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Eu

Within the widening European Union, large-scale movements of people, animals and food-products increasingly contribute to the potential for spread of communicable diseases. The EU was given a mandate for public health action only in 1992, under the Treaty of European Union ("Maastricht Treaty"), which was broadened in the 1997 with the Treaty of Amsterdam. While all EU countries have statutory requirements for notifying communicable diseases, national and regional communicable disease surveillance practices vary considerably (1). The Network Committee (NC) for the Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases in the EU was established in 1998 to harmonise these activities.

scholarly journals New chair of the Council for European State Epidemiologists for Communicable Diseases (CESE) outlines some immediate challenges

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
E Hoile
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Public Health Institute ◽  
European State ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Control

For almost 10 years now, there has been close cooperation between the national structures responsible for infectious disease surveillance in the European Union (EU). This work was first formalised when the heads of EU surveillance units, with support from the European Commission, produced a charter for surveillance across the EU. This group has since continued a very fruitful exchange of ideas and initiatives under the slightly misleading name of the Charter Group. In April this year, the group decided to go one step further, and to set up a more formal Council of European State Epidemiologists for Communicable Disease (CESE). Led by the outgoing chairman, Professor Pauli Leinikki of KTL, the National Public Health Institute of Finland, the CESE group has developed a Strategy for Development of Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases in the European Union 2003-2008 (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/lip/latest/doc/2002/com2002_0029en01.doc).

scholarly journals Communicable disease epidemiology training in Northern Europe

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
P Aavitsland ◽  
S Andresen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Immunisation Programme ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
The State ◽  
Disease Epidemiology ◽  
Hiv Surveillance ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
And Control

The five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) have a long tradition of collaboration in communicable disease epidemiology and control. The state epidemiologists and the immunisation programme managers have met regularly to discuss common challenges and exchange experiences in surveillance and control of communicable diseases. After the three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) regained independence in 1991 and the Soviet Union dissolved, contacts were made across the old iron curtain in several areas, such as culture, education, business, military and medicine. Each of the Nordic communicable disease surveillance institutes started projects with partners in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or the Russian Federation. The projects were in such diverse areas as HIV surveillance and prevention (1), vaccination programmes and antibiotic resistance. In the mid 1990s the Nordic state epidemiologists noted that there was duplication of efforts and only slow progress towards controlling communicable diseases in the region. Thus, to use the resources more efficiently and to improve the relationships with the Baltic partners, the state epidemiologists set out to co-ordinate their bilateral efforts. They felt that the Nordic network, which had worked so well, could easily be extended eastwards.

scholarly journals From epidemiological surveillance to European integration

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 91-91
Author(s):  
F Tissot
Keyword(s):  
Surveillance System ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Epidemiological Surveillance ◽  
National Surveillance ◽  
Control Potential ◽  
Disease Surveillance System ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Control ◽  
National Surveillance System

Between March and June 1999, 442 000 Kosovar refugees arrived in Albania. The national surveillance system was unprepared for this and an emergency communicable disease surveillance system was set up to detect and control potential outbreaks among the ref

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Slovenia

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Klavs ◽  
A Hocevar-Grom ◽  
M Socan ◽  
M Grgic-Vitek ◽  
L Pahor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Control

National communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Slovenia is coordinated by the Communicable Diseases Centre of the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Latvia

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Bormane ◽  
I Lucenko ◽  
J Perevoščikovs
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
And Control

The Latvian public health service dates back to 1947. The Sanitary Epidemiological Service, created in Soviet times, provided two main functions – assessment of health risk factors, including surveillance of communicable diseases, and inspection.

scholarly journals Roles and functions of a European Union Public Health Centre for Communicable Diseases and other threats to health

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Van Loock ◽  
N Gill ◽  
S Wallyn ◽  
A Nicoll ◽  
J C Desenclos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Public Health Centre ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Chemical Agents ◽  
The People ◽  
The Eu

An international consensus has been reached that a European Union (EU) Technical Coordination Structure (TCS) for communicable diseases is needed to improve Europe’s future response to international communicable disease threats within and beyond its boundaries. After the American events of September 11 2001 and the deliberate releases of anthrax, the EU created a Health Security Committee, adopted a civil protection decision, and established for 18 months a team to develop responses for deliberate releases of biological and chemical agents. These two initiatives, the network’s approach and health security work, must converge into a single stream addressing health protection for the people of Europe. They could be combined into a European Centre for Communicable Diseases that is planned to become active by 2005.

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Cyprus

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Poyiadji-Kalakouta
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
And Control

The Medical and Public Health Services of the Ministry of Health of Cyprus have recently developed a new Network for the Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Lithuania

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Rokaite ◽  
N Kupreviciene
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Health Centre ◽  
And Control

The Lithuanian Centre for Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (CCDPC, Užkreciamuju ligu profilaktikos ir kontroles centras) in Vilnius was established in 1997 after the reorganisation of the State Immunisation Centre and the Department of Communicable Diseases at the State Public Health Centre

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Estonia

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (28) ◽  
Author(s):  
K Kutsar ◽  
J Varjas
Keyword(s):  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
And Control

The surveillance of communicable diseases in Estonia dates back to the 18th century

scholarly journals ECDC to launch first report on communicable diseases epidemiology in the European Union

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Amato-Gauci ◽  
A Ammon
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
The European Union ◽  
First Report ◽  
European Centre ◽  
And Control

The First European Communicable Disease Epidemiological Report has been launched by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) today.

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