Lessons from a decade of emerging diseases: towards regional public health security

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Richard Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Regional Public Health

scholarly journals WHO highlights need for collective international efforts to face emerging diseases

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Collective Editorial team
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Health Report ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Report ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

On 23 August, the World Health Organization published its latest World Health Report, subtitled ‘A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century’.

scholarly journals Strengthening Virology Research in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Preparing for Future Pandemics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Viola Miranda ◽  
Lowilius Wiyono ◽  
Ian Christopher N. Rocha ◽  
Trisha Denise D. Cedeño ◽  
Don Eliseo III Lucero-Prisno
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regional Public Health

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is known to be a global hotspot to viral outbreaks because of many factors. To limit the impact of future outbreaks, it is crucial for the ASEAN governments to strengthen regional virology research capacity. The ASEAN governments have collaborated in several virology initiatives, with the most recent being the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Center for Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases. However, several challenges, including technology disparities, nationalistic tendencies, and the lack of public acceptance toward virus sharing, need to be addressed to maximize the region’s collaboration potential in virology research. We recommend the governments to 1) prioritize the strengthening of research capacities; 2) develop stronger cooperation and possible centralization of efforts on top of national capacities; 3) develop an equitable and secure research framework; and 4) improve the public awareness regarding the importance of regional public health responses.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Risk Assessment: Contributing to Maintaining Urban Public Health Security and Achieving Sustainable Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4208
Author(s):  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Xiaodie Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Floating Population ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
And Control ◽  
Epidemic Risk

As the most infectious disease in 2020, COVID-19 is an enormous shock to urban public health security and to urban sustainable development. Although the epidemic in China has been brought into control at present, the prevention and control of it is still the top priority of maintaining public health security. Therefore, the accurate assessment of epidemic risk is of great importance to the prevention and control even to overcoming of COVID-19. Using the fused data obtained from fusing multi-source big data such as POI (Point of Interest) data and Tencent-Yichuxing data, this study assesses and analyzes the epidemic risk and main factors that affect the distribution of COVID-19 on the basis of combining with logistic regression model and geodetector model. What’s more, the following main conclusions are obtained: the high-risk areas of the epidemic are mainly concentrated in the areas with relatively dense permanent population and floating population, which means that the permanent population and floating population are the main factors affecting the risk level of the epidemic. In other words, the reasonable control of population density is greatly conducive to reducing the risk level of the epidemic. Therefore, the control of regional population density remains the key to epidemic prevention and control, and home isolation is also the best means of prevention and control. The precise assessment and analysis of the epidemic conducts by this study is of great significance to maintain urban public health security and achieve the sustainable urban development.

scholarly journals Duration and distance of exposure are important predictors of transmission among community contacts of Ontario SARS cases

2007 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
pp. 914-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. REA ◽  
J. LAFLÈCHE ◽  
S. STALKER ◽  
B. K. GUARDA ◽  
H. SHAPIRO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Rate Ratio ◽  
Multivariable Analysis ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Duration Of Illness ◽  
Source Case ◽  
Contact Data ◽  
Single Well

SUMMARYWe report attack rates and contact-related predictors among community contacts of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) cases from the 2003 Toronto-area outbreak. Community contact data was extracted from public health records for single, well-defined exposures to a SARS case. In total, 8662 community-acquired exposures resulted in 61 probable cases; a crude attack rate of 0·70% [95% confidence interval (CI) 0·54–0·90]. Persons aged 55–69 years were at higher risk of acquiring SARS (1·14%) than those either younger (0·60%) or older (0·70%). In multivariable analysis exposures for at least 30 min at a distance of ⩽1 m increased the likelihood of becoming a SARS case 20·4-fold (95% CI 11·8–35·1). Risk related to duration of illness in the source case at time of exposure was greatest for illness duration of 7–10 days (rate ratio 3·4, 95% CI 1·9–6·1). Longer and closer proximity exposures incurred the highest rate of disease. Separate measures of time and distance from source cases should be added to minimum datasets for the assessment of interventions for SARS and other emerging diseases.

scholarly journals Public Health Crisis in War and Conflict - Health Security in Aggregate

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Quinn ◽  
Tomáš Zelený ◽  
Rammika Subramaniam ◽  
Vladimír Bencko
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
War And Conflict

scholarly journals Ensuring Sustainable Development in Ghana: Public Health Security and Policy Concerns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham ASSAN ◽  
Ali AKBARI SARI ◽  
Amirhossein TAKIAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Security

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scholarly journals Reflections on Climate Change and Public Health in Africa in an Era of Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edlyne Eze Anugwom
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Sub Saharan

The study examined the impact of climate change on public health provisioning in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to recognising the multifarious influence of climate change on health, it argues that the quest for global health security can only be achieved against the backdrop of concerted mainstreaming of climate change response into public heath provisioning, especially in the developing world. Adapting to climate change and mitigating its impact would logically require integrating it into public health planning, programming and interventions. Therefore, if health security entails provisioning and catering to the full range of health needs of people, climate change given its undoubted implications for health should be in the forefront of health security globally. Despite the global discourse of climate change and health security, tangible actions and programmes at different levels are needed to achieve the goals of good health and effective health security. This is no less the case now that the pandemic has challenged and stretched health institutions and provisions. However, the complex and intertwining effects of climate change and its manifold nexus with public health and health security can easily be apprehended through the systems perspective. There is the need for both radicalization of the public health system in Sub-Saharan Africa and concerted efforts across disciplines and actors to achieve effective climate change mitigation and adaptation and thus further strengthen health security.

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