Promoting public health legal preparedness for emergencies: review of current trends and their relevance in light of the Ebola crisis

Cohen, Odeya; Feder‐Bubis, Paula; Bar‐Dayan, Yaron; Adini, Bruria

doi:10.3402/gha.v8.28871

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“…20 Global scholars have published a substantial number of papers on PHEP, [21][22][23] and previous reviews had characterized the knowledge growth and gaps in this field. 7,21,[24][25][26][27] However, to the best of our knowledge, no bibliometric analysis of PHEP is available to date. Therefore, in this study, a bibliometric analysis on PHEP was performed to access the output trend, the contributions of certain countries, institutions, authors, journals, and identify research hotspots in this field.…”

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Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Qiu

Peng

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Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objectives: To access the trends and focuses of publications on public health emergency preparedness in the timeframe 1997-2019. Methods: Publications related to public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Bibliometric analyses including output statistics, co-authorship analysis, citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and co-occurrence analysis were performed and mapped using VOSviewer. Results: A total of 1058 publications on PHEP were included in this study. There was an increasing trend of publication output and citations since 2002. A total of 4605 authors from 1587 institutes and 92 countries contributed to the publications, and the United States lead the field. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness was the most active and co-cited journal among 243 journals. The knowledge foundation mainly focused on the professionals’ capacity, education, and conceptions of PHEP. Epidemics, natural disasters, terrorism, education, and communication were the principle topics; while “vulnerable populations,” “disaster medicine,” and “hurricane” were the recent hotspots in this field. Conclusions: Significant progresses had been achieved worldwide in the past 2 decades, however, improvement of research activity and international collaboration is still a need for most countries.

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Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…The criteria and mechanisms for declaring public health emergencies and for complying with the IHR need to be improved. The procedures should be simplified for the countries with scarce resources (3,10).…”

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COVID-19: The World Community Expects the World Health Organization to Play a Stronger Leadership and Coordination Role in Pandemics Control

Kuznetsova

2020

Front. Public Health

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been accompanied by the return of the concept of national state and exhibited signs of crisis of globalism and liberalism. The pandemic affected most aspects of society and human activity, including socioeconomic impact. Economic problems, shortages of medical supplies and personnel, xenophobic sentiments, and misinformation led to the use of unethical practices and human rights violations. To navigate through this crisis, many countries resorted to traditional diplomacy in the absence of effective international instruments. Thus, the world faced the urgent need in functioning global governance. The pandemic also manifested the increasing importance of international organizations as sources of technical expertise, providing scientific basis for politicians to legitimize their decisions and actions. The article addresses the topic of implications of the pandemic for governance and forecasting a post-pandemic future. The research focus of this paper, therefore, is the assessment of the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in prevention and response to pandemics. The work is aimed at identifying the functions of the WHO and assessing its activities in prevention and control of pandemics and response to the COVID-19 pandemic in particular. Furthermore, the objective of this article is to identify gaps in the WHO pandemic control efforts and formulate recommendations on addressing them.

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“…For instance, the USA employs a public health legal preparedness (PHLP) framework, which represents a legal imperative for multisectoral action in emergencies. 18 While the US framework was borne of the need to serve a federal structure, there is a need for something similar in countries in order to formally mandate obligatory multisectoral responses in support of health system emergency preparedness and the IHR (2005). And while this cannot necessarily eliminate the potential for domestic political factors to impede IHR (2005) compliance— as was the case with both the H1N1 pandemic and Ebola outbreak—such a meso-level bottom-up approach can help to ensure an adequate response and make the case for greater compliance.…”

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Strengthening global health security by embedding the International Health Regulations requirements into national health systems

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The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, as the overarching instrument for global health security, are designed to prevent and cope with major international public health threats. But poor implementation in countries hampers their effectiveness. In the wake of a number of major international health crises, such as the 2014 Ebola and 2016 Zika outbreaks, and the findings of a number of high-level assessments of the global response to these crises, it has become clear that there is a need for more joined-up thinking between health system strengthening activities and health security efforts for prevention, alert and response. WHO is working directly with its Member States to promote this approach, more specifically around how to better embed the IHR (2005) core capacities into the main health system functions. This paper looks at how and where the intersections between the IHR and the health system can be best leveraged towards developing greater health system resilience. This merging of approaches is a key component in pursuit of Universal Health Coverage and strengthened global health security as two mutually reinforcing agendas.

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Promoting public health legal preparedness for emergencies: review of current trends and their relevance in light of the Ebola crisis

Cited by 9 publications

References 65 publications

Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

COVID-19: The World Community Expects the World Health Organization to Play a Stronger Leadership and Coordination Role in Pandemics Control

Strengthening global health security by embedding the International Health Regulations requirements into national health systems

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