A new international public health target

Global Public Health Surveillance under New International Health Regulations

The new International Health Regulations adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2005 (IHR 2005) represents a major development in the use of international law for public health purposes. One of the most important aspects of IHR 2005 is the establishment of a global surveillance system for public health emergencies of international concern. This article assesses the surveillance system in I...

International Public Health

Public health is a broad field that touches several different medical disciplines such as epidemiology, public health informatics, health statistics, environmental protection (ecology), sociology, health promotion, disease prevention and organization of health care for nosological groups of the population. In Europe and the world today is developed a fairly extensive network of scientific and p...

The new International Health Regulations: an historic development for international law and public health.

International public health: between old and new paradigms.

today's changing world, public health has had to adjust to new demands arising out of the intense activity of complex and dynamic cultural, social, and economic processes that transcend borders. The dizzying development of trade, modes of transport, and telecommunications, which has led to the nearly exponential growth of migration, has contributed to this phenomenon. Changes in the health stat...

International law and public health.

At the beginning of the 21st century there is widespread recognition that national and international health are inseparable. Societies are increasingly turning to innovative and diverse mechanisms of international health cooperation to gain control over the forces that are globalizing public health and related risk factors such as those outlined in this year’s World Health Report (1). Consequen...