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Record Nr.

UNISA996320244603316

Titolo

International health regulations (2005) [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2008

ISBN

1-281-93783-5

9786611937836

92-4-068345-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Disciplina

344.043

Soggetti

Public health laws, International

Public health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; COPYRIGHT; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ANNEXES; FOREWORD; REVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS; INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (2005); PART I - DEFINITIONS, PURPOSE AND SCOPE; PART II - INFORMATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE; PART III - RECOMMENDATIONS; PART IV - POINTS OF ENTRY; PART V - PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES; Chapter I - General provisions; Chapter II - Special provisions for conveyances and conveyance operators; Chapter III - Special provisions for travelers; Chapter IV - Special provisions for goods, containers and container loading areas; PART VI - HEALTH DOCUMENTS

PART VII - CHARGES PART VIII - GENERAL PROVISIONS; PART IX - THE IHR ROSTER OF EXPERTS, THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE AND THE REVIEW COMMITTEE; Chapter II - The Emergency Committee; Chapter III - The Review Committee; PART X - FINAL PROVISIONS; ANNEXES; INDEX TO THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS

Sommario/riassunto

In consideration of the increases in international travel and trade, and emergence and reemergence of international disease threats and other health risks, the Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly in 2005 adopted the revised International Health Regulations (IHR). The new IHR entered into force on 15 June 2007. Their stated purpose and scope are ""to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response



to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international