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International Health Regulations

Meaning in public health & epidemiology, with examples

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In public health & epidemiology, International Health Regulations means: A legally binding international agreement that sets out how countries and WHO must detect, report and respond to public health risks that may spread across borders.

In Turkish: Uluslararası Sağlık Tüzüğü, UST

How it is used

Usually written IHR or IHR (2005), after the year of the current version. Each country has a National IHR Focal Point that communicates with WHO, and countries assess their core capacities for surveillance, laboratories and points of entry such as airports.

Example sentences

  1. Under the International Health Regulations, the event had to be reported to WHO within 24 hours of assessment.

  2. The airport's health unit was upgraded to meet the International Health Regulations.

Common collocations

  • IHR (2005)
  • National IHR Focal Point
  • core capacities
  • points of entry
  • WHOShort for the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency for international public health, founded in 1948 and based in Geneva.
  • public health emergency of international concernAn extraordinary event that WHO formally declares because it is a public health risk to other countries through international spread and may need a coordinated international response.
  • surveillanceThe continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data, shared in good time so that action can be taken to prevent and control disease.
  • pandemicAn epidemic that spreads across several countries or continents and affects a very large number of people.

More terms: Global Health and Health Systems

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