Atlanta, GA About Blog Sharing our stories on preparing for and responding to
public health events by Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Frequency about 4 posts per month.
These joint ICAO / WHO visits by aviation and public health experts facilitate training for aviation and health professionals who are involved
in public health event planning in the aviation sector.
Mexico's focal point considers outbreak to be a «potential
public health event of international importance» because it meets IHR criteria: severe public health impact and an unusual event.
Dehai Liu of the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, in Dalian, Liaoning, China, and colleagues have used evolutionary game theory to examine the data associated with a
major public health event — the emergence of a new pandemic virus.
f) «Global health security» refers to activities required, both proactive and reactive, to minimize vulnerability to
acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical regions and international boundaries and includes the efforts of the Global Health Security Agenda to establish capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats, whether naturally occurring, deliberate, or accidental.
«The idea is to try and organise the world's information on emerging infectious diseases and
public health events,» says John Brownstein, then make it accessible and engaging.
CAPSCA is an ICAO global program to improve preparedness planning and response to
public health events that affect the aviation sector, such as an influenza pandemic or a nuclear power - plant accident.
The Collaborative Arrangement for the Prevention and Management of
Public Health Events in Civil Aviation (CAPSCA)