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International Health Regulations (IHR) Capacity And Health Emergency Preparedness
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Relevance/rationale of the indicator (resp. why the indicator was chosen to measure the target and how it is suitable for these purposes) | Under the IHR, States Parties are obliged to develop and maintain minimum core capacities for surveillance and response, including at points of entry, in order to early detect, assess, notify, and respond to any potential public health events of international concern. This SDG 3.d.1 indicator reflects the capacities State Parties of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) had agreed and committed to develop. |
Target value of the indicator and its evaluation | |
Definition | Proportion of fulfillment/achievement of 13 core capacities. Original definition of 13 core capacities: Percentage of attributes of 13 core capacities that have been attained at a specific point in time. The 13 core capacities are: (1) National legislation, policy and financing; (2) Coordination and National Focal Point communications; (3) Surveillance; (4) Response; (5) Preparedness; (6) Risk communication; (7) Human resources; (8) Laboratory; (9) Points of entry; (10) Zoonotic events; (11) Food safety; (12) Chemical events; (13) Radionuclear emergencies. New definition of 13 core capacities: Percentage of attributes of 13 core capacities that have been attained at a specific point in time. The 13 core capacities are: (1) Legislation and financing; (2) IHR Coordination and National Focal Point Functions; (3) Zoonotic events and the Human-Animal Health Interface; (4) Food safety; (5) Laboratory; (6) Surveillance; (7) Human resources; (8) National Health Emergency Framework; (9) Health Service Provision; (10) Risk communication; (11) Points of entry; (12) Chemical events; (13) Radiation emergencies. |
Measuring unit | % |
Indicator disaggregation | |
Reference period (resp. the period to which the indicator relates) | Year |
Related geographical area | CZ (NUTS 0) |
Comment | Probably there was a change in the methodology – "SPAR new questionaire for IHR Annual reporting from year 2018; the capacities had changed (https://extranet.who.int/e-spar/)" - the data are therefore not comparable. Data taken from the Global Database. IHR (INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS) SPAR (STATE PARTY ANNUAL REPORT) |
Update periodicity | Annually |
Time coverage since | 2010 (no 2016; since 2018 methodology change) |
Time coverage until | 2019 |
Time series available at the data provider since | 2010 (no 2016; since 2018 methodology change) |
Data publication date (resp. the date when the data provider publishes (regularly) data; it is given in the format T + the number of days, months or years when T is the end of the reference period) |
Contact point - data provider - e-mail | Sarka.Dankova@uzis.cz |
Contact point - data provider - name | Šárka Daňková |
Data source | Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic |
Data origin | WHO |
Links to detailed metadata or methodology | https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-03-0D-01.pdf |
Links to international comparison | WHO |