Selected article for: "acute SARS epidemic respiratory syndrome and SARS epidemic"

Author: Feldbaum, Harley; Lee, Kelley; Michaud, Joshua
Title: Global Health and Foreign Policy
  • Document date: 2010_4_27
  • ID: 1cpvboto_38
    Snippet: During the final decades of the 20th century, it became clear to many member states that the IHRs were inadequate: The regulations covered only 3 diseases, countries were often noncompliant, and the WHO had limited flexibility to conduct outbreak surveillance and response (83, 84) . Even with recognition of these weaknesses, attempted revisions of the IHRs stalled until the 2002-2003 epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (83) . SAR.....
    Document: During the final decades of the 20th century, it became clear to many member states that the IHRs were inadequate: The regulations covered only 3 diseases, countries were often noncompliant, and the WHO had limited flexibility to conduct outbreak surveillance and response (83, 84) . Even with recognition of these weaknesses, attempted revisions of the IHRs stalled until the 2002-2003 epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (83) . SARS demonstrated the direct and continuing threat that transnational disease epidemics pose to health and economic interests (85) and generated the political momentum necessary to complete the IHR revision process. In this case, a threat to state foreign-policy interests was critical to advancing diplomacy on global health.

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