Health security capacities in the context of COVID-19 outbreak: an analysis of International Health Regulations annual report data from 182 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public health measures to prevent, detect, and respond to events are essential to control public health risks, including infectious disease outbreaks, as highlighted in the International Health Regulations (IHR). In light of the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), we aimed to review existing health security capacities against public health risks and events.

Methods

We used 18 indicators from the IHR State Party Annual Reporting (SPAR) tool and associated data from national SPAR reports to develop five indices: (1) prevent, (2) detect, (3) respond, (4) enabling function, and (5) operational readiness. We used SPAR 2018 data for all of the indicators and categorised countries into five levels across the indices, in which level 1 indicated the lowe

SUBMITTER: Kandel N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7271261 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature