[The surveillance of communicable diseases within the International Health Regulations (2005)]

Abstract

On the 15th of June 2007 entered into force the International Health Regulations entered into force with are the revision previous Health Regulations from 1969. The IHR (2005) were adopted on 58 World Health Assembly by WHO member-states. The new Regulations give a new opportunity and tools to protect and control of infections diseases. Because of a broad scope, IHR (2005) are also useful in detection of any event that may constitute a public health risk. The key terms as defined by IHR (2005) are: term of event, disease, public health risk (PHR), public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), National IHR Focal Point and WHO IHR Contact Point. By new requirements State-Parties are involve in real time event management, they are also oblige to asses the event risk according to decision instrument in Annex 2 of IHR (2005). This article reviews the key obligations of IHR (2005) to both member-states and WHO and also the ways of emergence communications under this document.