Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9241547685

This guidance is an update of WHO global influenza preparedness plan: the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics, published March 2005 (WHO/CDS/CSR/GIP/2005.5).

National civil–military health collaboration framework for strengthening health emergency preparedness

National civil–military health collaboration framework for strengthening health emergency preparedness
Author:
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9240030344

To ensure effective civil-military health collaboration that supports health emergency preparedness interventions required to combat existing or potential threats, and for longer-term health security capacity-building, it is critical to identify pathways for partnership well before a response to a health emergencies is required. To this end, WHO together with Member States and partners developed the National civil-military health collaboration framework for strengthening health emergency preparedness. The aim of this framework is to provide the public health sector and military actors and services at the national level with guidance for establishing, advancing, and maintaining collaboration and coordination, with the focus on country core capacities required to effectively prevent, detect, respond to, recover from and build back better after health emergencies.

Everyone’s business

Everyone’s business
Author:
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9240015086

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond
Author: Scott J.N. McNabb
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2023-10-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323909469

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond explores—through thoughtful, thorough, and diverse scientific review and analyses—factors that have led to recent public health emergencies and offers a vision for a better protected global environment. The authors consider the history of global health security, governance, and legal structures with an eye toward novel approaches for the present and future. The book presents a vision for a more protected and safer global public health future (with the actions needed to achieve it) to prevent, detect, and respond to (re)emerging threats. Its aim is to chart a way forward with the understanding that future pandemics must and can be prevented. Major topics examined from a public health perspective include global health security; the growing concept of One Health; epidemic and pandemic prevention, detection, and response; reviews of past (e.g., Ebola, MERS-CoV, Zika, and COVID-19) public health emergencies of international concern; roles of information and communication technology; humanmade public health threats; and legal and ethical issues (e.g., viral sovereignty, trust, and transparency). Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond provides the academic substance and quality for researchers and practitioners to deeply understand the why of health emergencies, and most importantly—what we can and should do now to prepare. - Highlights (re)emerging past and future threats to public health (e.g., climate change, antibiotic resistance, failures of societal sectors to work together) - Discusses new visions for global health security in each chapter - Considers how to leverage technological innovations to advance public health - Includes practical examples through case studies from around the world

Strengthening health emergency preparedness in cities and urban settings

Strengthening health emergency preparedness in cities and urban settings
Author:
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9240040897

This guidance document aims to support leaders, policy-makers and decision makers in both national and local authorities, who work on strengthening health emergency preparedness in cities and urban settings. Building on the key aspects that authorities should consider it proposes possible actions and approaches, that when adapted to different local contexts, will contribute to enhanced prevention, preparedness, and readiness for health emergencies in cities and urban settings for a robust response and eventual recovery. It supplements other existing WHO guidance and tools on urban preparedness, in particular the WHO Framework for Strengthening health emergency preparedness in cities and urban settings.

Health systems for health security

Health systems for health security
Author:
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9240029680

The Health Systems for Health Security (HSforHS) Framework guides developing capacities for International Health Regulations (IHR), and components in health systems and other sectors that work in synergy to meet the demands imposed by health emergencies. HSforHS offers an innovative and country-focused approach that builds on the lessons learned from recent health emergencies, including the COVID-19 Pandemic. The HSforHS Framework complements existing concepts and tools that support capacity-building for global health security. The HSforHS Framework is structured to: Support stakeholders to better understand what Health Systems for Health Security entails, Delineate the essential components of health systems and other sectors that play an important role in health security, Explain how countries can define, prioritize and monitor the actions and investments in health security, health systems and other sectors that can support multisectoral and multidisciplinary management of health emergencies, Help partners and donors better support countries in strengthening their health security capacities, and Highlight challenges related to the implementation of the HSforHS Framework.

Universal Health Coverage Partnership annual report 2022

Universal Health Coverage Partnership annual report 2022
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2024-07-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9240089349

The UHC Partnership (UHC-P) is a collaborative agreement between WHO, several donors (namely: the EU, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Irish Aid, the Government of Japan, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Germany, Canada, Belgium and the UK Department for International Development) and a number of partner countries (currently, 125 partner countries across all six WHO regions) to support policy dialogue on national health policies, strategies, and plans (NHPSPs) and UHC -and it is part of the WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care (SP-PHC). Its overall objective being to improve health sector results in concerned countries, it aims at building country capacities (and strengthening country processes) for the development, negotiation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of robust and comprehensive NHPSPs with a view on promoting UHC; health in all policies; and people-centered primary care -as indeed, investments in quality primary health care (PHC) will be the cornerstone for achieving UHC around the world. The purpose of this publication is to document accomplishments of the UHC-P in 2022 for the 125 partner countries. The annual UHC-P report serves as a single report to all nine donors supporting the Partnership. It will provide a synthesis of activities and results achieved in all the participating countries; present a range of country examples related to the major areas of work; and also elaborate on how the UHC-P achieved sustainable buy-in of partners and stakeholders at the country level in the different countries concerned.

One Health Joint Plan of Action, 2022–2026

One Health Joint Plan of Action, 2022–2026
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2022-10-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9251369577

Following the 27th Tripartite Annual Executive Meeting, the FAO Programme Committee in its 130th session, March 2021, requested the joint development, by the Tripartite (FAO/WHO/WOAH) and others, of a strategy and action plan to prevent future zoonotic pandemics through the One Health approach. The One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH JPA) is intended to guide the four organizations of the Quadripartite to work together on One Health with the aim of supporting their Members to build One Health capacities. It provides a framework for action and proposes a set of activities that the four organizations can offer together to enable countries to advance and scale up One Health in managing human, animal, plant and environment health threats. The framework uses a One Health approach to strengthen collaboration, communication, advocacy, and coordination equally across all sectors responsible for addressing health concerns at the human-animal-plant-environment interface.