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Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations
- Source :
- The Lancet, Lancet, The Lancet (2020), Lancet (London, England)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Amid frenzied national responses to COVID-19, the world could soon reach a critical juncture to revisit and strengthen the International Health Regulations (IHR), the multilateral instrument that governs how 196 states and WHO collectively address the global spread of disease.1, 2 In many countries, IHR obligations that are vital to an effective pandemic response remain unfulfilled, and the instrument has been largely side-lined in the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest global health crisis in a century. It is time to reimagine the IHR as an instrument that will compel global solidarity and national action against the threat of emerging and re-emerging pathogens. We call on state parties to reform the IHR to improve supervision, international assistance, dispute resolution, and overall textual clarity.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
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International Health Regulations
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030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Public administration
Global Health
World Health Organization
Article
Dispute resolution
law.invention
Betacoronavirus
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0302 clinical medicine
State (polity)
law
Political science
Pandemic
Global health
medicine
Humans
International health regulations
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
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media_common
SARS-CoV-2
Public health
COVID-19
General Medicine
Solidarity
ddc:320
ddc:341
CLARITY
Public Health
Coronavirus Infections
KZ
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01406736
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Lancet
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e4eff181952b7c275534fc7e2122d843
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31417-3