Should this event be notified to the World Health Organization? Reliability of the International Health Regulations notification assessment process;Cet événement doit-il être notifié à l'organisation mondiale de la santé? Fiabilité du processus d'évaluation de la notification du règlement sanitaire international

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 296-303

  Haustein, Thomas ^a   Hollmeyer, Helge ^b   Hardiman, Max ^b   Harbarth, Stephan ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HEALTH POLICY; PANEL DATA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANNEX 2; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEM; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATION; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79955405377     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.10.083154     Document Type: Article

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