Should this event be notified to the World Health Organization? reliability of the international health regulations notification assessment process

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the reliability of the public health event notification assessment process under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). METHODS: In 2009, 193 National IHR Focal Points (NFPs) were invited to use the decision instrument in Annex 2 of the IHR to determine whether...

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Main Authors: Thomas Haustein, Helge Hollmeyer, Max Hardiman, Stephan Harbarth, Didier Pittet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011000400013&lng=en&tlng=en