Prevention

Zika won’t stop Olympic games

Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 08:03

A debate is ongoing if Olympic Games should be cancelled, moved or delayed because of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared by WHO on 1st February 2016 on microcephaly in Brazil, which is being proven to be associated with Zika infection. On May 25th, 150 experts in bioethics, public health and social sciences signed an open letter to the WHO, asking to skip the Games, in order to avoid a further spread of the epidemic.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Prevention
Tags: 
zika, Risk perception, Risk management, WHO, transparency, Uncertainty

Best practices on the phone: the MyPed app

Monday, June 13, 2016 - 09:27

An application aimed to help parents taking care of their children’s health. This is the idea behind MyPed, a mobile app developed by a group of physicians that won our Best practice award for general practitioners. The app, available for both Android and iOS smartphone, combines different tools that parents may use to manage their children’s health.

Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Prevention, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
best practice, Vaccine

Cooperation and engagement for a polio-free world

Friday, May 6, 2016 - 11:11

“We are so close to ending the polio” and “Still 15 years to a polio-free world” are not contradictory statements. They instead describe, with different degree of optimism, the current framework and the objective to be pursued in the fight against this disease. In other words, we are closer than ever to the target of a world free of polio, but much remains to be done to carry the world across the threshold. Polio eradication is the next issue public health authorities will be committed to in midterm future.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Media, Microbiology, Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
polio, Vaccine, Vaccine safety, Surveillance, engagement, ECDC

Why still Polio

Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 16:38

ECDC internal meeting
April 14 2016.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
polio, ECDC
PDF icon donato_greco_-_ecdc_april_14.pdf

Action Plan for Poliomyelitis Prevention and Control

Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 16:36

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Advisory Forum
May 12-13, Stockholm

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
polio
PDF icon donato_greco_-_ecdc_may_12-13_stockholm.pdf

ASSET project a resource in case of infectious threats

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 10:16

Lessons learned for public health from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Luxembourg, 12-14 October 2015
By Eva Benelli

Target: 
Decision Makers
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
Ebola
PDF icon assetpres_def_11oct.pdf

Zika, or the burden of uncertainty

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 09:30

Clin Ter. 2016;167(1):7-9.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
zika

Vaccination in pregnancy: safe and effective

April 26, 2016

As it was proved during 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic, vaccinating pregnant women against flu is usually safe and can protect both mother and children. Vaccination against whooping cough is recommended as well, while vaccines with live virus, such as nasal spray flu vaccine, measles and rubella, should not be used in these cases. Thomas Breuer, GSK Senior Vice president, Chief Medical Officer, Vaccines, tells ASSET about a new approach to protect babies against a dangerous infection such as SRV (syncytial respiratory virus), by immunising mothers during pregnancy with a vaccine which is currently under study at GSK.

Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Prevention, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine safety, Pregnancy, Video

Filling the gaps in preparedness plans

Friday, March 4, 2016 - 08:37
A rescue exercise carried out by civil protection and Red Cross volunteers in Tabarre.

Preparedness is a key strategic element of an effective response to health threats. However, despite evident improvements in recent years, there is still large evidence of ineffective management of epidemic and pandemic events at any level, as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa recently showed.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Preparedness, risk communication, Risk perception, Ebola

Using the web to track flu and other infectious diseases

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 15:29

Flutrackers is an online platform that gather information about infectious diseases from journals, news sources and citizens around the world. It was started in 2006 by a diverse group of volunteers, initially interested in investigating seasonal influenza, novel influenza, and chikungunya. In later years, we expanded our range by including other health threats such as the Ebola and Zika viruses, and drug resistant bacteria.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Epidemiology, Human Rights, Microbiology, Prevention
Tags: 
flu, influenza, Surveillance

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