The utilisation of tools to facilitate cross-border communication during international food safety events, 1995-2020: a realist synthesis.

ABSTRACT: Efficient communication and coordination are needed between countries to prevent, detect and respond to international food safety events. While communication tools, networks and systems exist, current evidence suggests that they are only useful within particular contexts and several only target specific geographic areas. There is a need to unpack and explore the mechanisms of how and in what context such communication tools and their components are effective at facilitating international communication and coordination to keep food safe and mitigate the burden of foodborne disease around the world.A realist synthesis was undertaken to understand how and why certain processes and structures of communication tools, used during international food safety events, influence their utility and effe

SUBMITTER: Savelli CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8222958 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature