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Languages : en
Pages : 75
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In the Asia Pacific region, which comprises the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions, health security is continually threatened by outbreaks and public health emergencies caused by emerging infectious diseases, the impacts of natural hazards, and unsafe food and water. The likelihood of novel infectious diseases such as avian influenza emerging in the Asia Pacific region has been attributed to a number of factors including ecological or environmental factors that increase the risk of individuals coming into contact with a previously unfamiliar pathogen or its natural host. In the region, the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health Emergencies (APSED III), previously called the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases (APSED), is the common framework to address shared threats as required by the International Health Regulations (2005), or IHR (2005). The framework provides an important collaborative platform for Member States, WHO and partners to work together to strengthen preparedness and response to outbreaks and public health emergencies.
Author: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
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ISBN: 9789290615040
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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The Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases (APSED) was launched in 2005 as a common strategic framework for countries and areas of the region to strengthen their capacity to manage and respond to emerging disease threats, including influenza pandemics. Over the past five years, considerable progress has been made in the development and strengthening of the required core capacities. APSED 2010 will be implemented by building on the achievements of the original APSED, while recognizing variations in existing capacity levels across countries. It is intended that APSED 2010 will further support progress towards meeting International Health Regulations (2005) obligations and consolidate gains already made in establishing collective regional public health security. While APSED 2010 continued to focus on emerging diseases, it also seeks to maximize the benefits already achieved by widening its scope to include other acute public health threats and by identifying additional areas of synergy and special situations to which the Strategy can make important contributions. APSED (2010) seeks to provide a common framework for countries, WHO and partners to work together to enhance regional defence against public health threats.
Author: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Publisher: Wpro Publication
ISBN: 9789290617310
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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APSED is a strategic framework for building sustainable national and regional capacities and partnerships in the Asia Pacific Region to ensure public health security and to detect, prepare for and respond to emerging diseases and public health emergencies. The strategy has guided Member State actions to strengthen their capacities and to rally and coordinate the support of partners. This report looks at the progress of Member States and WHO for the reporting year July 2014 to June 2015. The report presents results reported by Member States, together with the progress by WHO in support of their efforts. The report is not meant to be comprehensive but to capture the main achievements: Member States may have engaged in further activities not noted here. The structure of this report differs from the reports of previous years to emphasize the efforts made towards Ebola preparedness and the APSED evaluation, the two central foci of the past year. Rather than reporting according to the progress in each APSED focus area, progress is addressed against the recommendations made at the 2014 Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meetings.
Author: World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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"The Bi-regional Meeting on the Asia-Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases, (APSED 2010) was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 16 to 18 July 2013 with the primary aim of reviewing the progress of APSED 2010 implementation, including national status progress towards fulfilling national the IHR (2005) core capacity requirements. In addition, discussion was held on current emerging infectious diseases and other public health events and emergencies in the Asia Pacific region, as well as considering ways to strengthen public health response. As a result, priority activities have been identified to be carried out in the forthcoming year by both Member States and by WHO. In both the South-East Asia and the Western Pacific Regions of WHO, the joint 'Asia-Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases' (APSED 2010) serves as a framework to help Member States to strengthen preparedness against emerging threats and thus meet the core capacity requirements of the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005). In order to support this vital work, the Asia-Pacific Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Emerging Diseases serves to provide technical advice and guidance to the respective Regional Directors as well as concerned Member States on the priority actions needed to support implementation of the Strategy. This report describes the proceedings of the meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on 15 July in Kathmandu, Nepal, immediately prior to the 'Bi-Regional Meeting on the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases, (APSED 2010)."--Page 4 of cover
Author: Milton J. Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134240562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the same time as they continue to grapple with communicable diseases. This book explores how disease patterns and health problems in Asia and the Pacific, and collective responses to them, have been shaped over time by cultural, economic, social, demographic, environmental and political factors. With fourteen chapters, each devoted to a country in the region, the authors take a comparative and historical approach to the evolution of public health and preventive medicine, and offer a broader understanding of the links in a globalizing world between health on the one hand and culture, economy, polity and society on the other. Public Health in Asia and the Pacific presents the importance of the non-medical context in the history of human disease, as well as the significance of disease in the larger histories of the region. It will appeal to scholars and policy makers in the fields of public health, the history of medicine, and those with a wider interest in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Category : Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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The Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases (APSED) was launched in 2005 as a common strategic framework for countries and areas of the region to strengthen their capacity to manage and respond to emerging disease threats, including influenza pandemics. Over the past five years, considerable progress has been made in the development and strengthening of the required core capacities. APSED 2010 will be implemented by building on the achievements of the original APSED, while recognizing variations in existing capacity levels across countries. It is intended that APSED 2010 will further support progress towards meeting International Health Regulations (2005) obligations and consolidate gains already made in establishing collective regional public health security. While APSED 2010 continued to focus on emerging diseases, it also seeks to maximize the benefits already achieved by widening its scope to include other acute public health threats and by identifying additional areas of synergy and special situations to which the Strategy can make important contributions. APSED (2010) seeks to provide a common framework for countries, WHO and partners to work together to enhance regional defence against public health threats.
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9292690752
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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This publication explores strategies, mechanisms, and innovations applied by the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The three case studies analyze pandemic-related challenges in the context of universal health coverage and identify good practices for emergency and crisis planning, management, coordination, and response. They also describe how the three countries mounted whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches for their respective pandemic responses. The publication distills key lessons that may be useful for other countries in the region to address the current, and any future, pandemic.
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Languages : en
Pages : 89
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ISBN: 9789290612094
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Languages : en
Pages : 147
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