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Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health systems of many countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite comparatively low rates of COVID-19 admissions and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic still had a ...
John Amuasi, Reinhard Busse, Wilm Quentin, Elliot Koranteng Tannor, Daniel Opoku   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adenovirus-based vaccines—a platform for pandemic preparedness against emerging viral pathogens

Molecular Therapy, 2022
Zoonotic viruses continually pose a pandemic threat. Infection of humans with viruses for which we typically have little or no prior immunity can result in epidemics with high morbidity and mortality.
Lynda Coughlan, E. Kremer, D. Shayakhmetov   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of human influenza pandemic scenarios in Europe [PDF]

, 2015
The response to the emergence of the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic was the result of a decade of pandemic planning, largely centred on the threat of an avian influenza A(H5N1) pandemic.
Barral, M, Beresniak, A., Bonnevay, S, Bounekkar, A, Briand, S, Cohen, Jm, Fabiani, M, Gauci, C, Goryński, P, Lionis, C, Napoli, Christian, Nicoll, A, Niddam, L, Oxford, J, Penttinen, P, Pistol, A, Rizzo, C   +16 more
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A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: beyond data collection

BMJ Global Health, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management.
Yi-Roe Tan, Anurag Agrawal, M. P. Matsoso, R. Katz, S. Davis, A. Winkler, Annalena Huber, A. Joshi, A. El-Mohandes, Bruce Mellado, Caroline Antonia Mubaira, Felipe C Canlas, G. Asiki, Harjyot Khosa, J. Lazarus, Marc Choisy, M. Recamonde‐Mendoza, O. Keiser, P. Okwen, R. English, Serge Stinckwich, S. Kiwuwa-Muyingo, Tariro Kutadza, Tavpritesh Sethi, Thuso Mathaha, V. K. Nguyen, A. Gill, P. Yap   +27 more
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð, Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir, Adrijana Visnjic‐Jevtic, Alison Clark   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enablers for resilience and pandemic preparedness in food supply chain

Operations Management Research, 2022
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous disruptions to supply chain (SCs). Border restrictions forced countless businesses to close either permanently or temporarily. However, the food industry is an essential sector that needs to be operational
Mukesh Kumar, Rakesh D. Raut, Mahak Sharma, Vivek Kumar Choubey, S. Paul   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pandemic preparedness systems and diverging COVID-19 responses within similar public health regimes: a comparative study of expert perceptions of pandemic response in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Globalization and Health, 2022
Background National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic depend on national preparedness systems that must be understood as components of global public health emergency preparedness systems, governed and coordinated through the World Health Organization’s ...
Jakob Laage-Thomsen, S. Frandsen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies: insights from the World Health Organization’s regional initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40 ...
Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Lisa L. Carter, Abdinasir Abubakar, Rachel Achilla, Amal Barakat, Nicksy Gumede, Alina Guseinova, Francis Yesurajan Inbanathan, Masaya Kato, Etien Koua, Juliana Leite, Marco Marklewitz, Jairo Mendez-Rico, Chavely Monamele, Biran Musul, Karen Nahapetyan, Dhamari Naidoo, Rachel Ochola, Mehmet Ozel, Philomena Raftery, Andrea Vicari, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Joanna Zwetyenga, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Céline Barnadas, Mick Mulders, Dmitriy I. Pereyaslov, Jilian A. Sacks, Taylor Warren, Sébastien Cognat, Sylvie Briand, Gina Samaan   +31 more
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Seasonal influenza vaccination policies in the 194 WHO Member States: The evolution of global influenza pandemic preparedness and the challenge of sustaining equitable vaccine access

Vaccine: X, 2021
Introduction As of 2018, 118 of 194 WHO Member States reported the presence of an influenza vaccination policy. Although influenza vaccination policies do not guarantee equitable access or ensure vaccination coverage, they are critical to establishing a ...
Kathleen F. Morales, David W Brown, Laure Dumolard, Claudia Steulet, Alba Vilajeliu, Alba María Ropero Álvarez, A. Moen, M. Friede, P. Lambach   +8 more
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Integral Scientific Advice for Outbreak Response: Lessons learned from an Avian Influenza Simulation in the Netherlands

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: The continuing avian influenza outbreaks in animals pose a public health threat worldwide. Concerns about the risk for humans are raising, now we see spread among different mammal species and animal to human transmission.
Dr Anja Schreijer, Dr. Femke Overbosch, Dr. Tomris Cesuroglu, Dr Charlotte Waltz, Drs. Bart Blokland, Drs Jeanette de Boer, Drs Tim Florschutz   +6 more
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