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...
Main Authors: | Thomas Haustein, Helge Hollmeyer, Max Hardiman, Stephan Harbarth, Didier Pittet |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
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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 |
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