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Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise
Across the world, the level of pandemic preparedness varies and no country is fully prepared to respond to all public health events. The International Health Regulations 2005 require state parties to develop core capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to public health events of international con...
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8892965/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35020486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/hs.2021.0095 |
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author | Fasominu, Olukayode Okunromade, Oyeladun Oyebanji, Oyeronke Lee, Christopher T. Atanda, Adejare Mamadu, Ibrahim Okudo, Ifeanyi Okereke, Ebere Ilori, Elsie Ihekweazu, Chikwe |
author_facet | Fasominu, Olukayode Okunromade, Oyeladun Oyebanji, Oyeronke Lee, Christopher T. Atanda, Adejare Mamadu, Ibrahim Okudo, Ifeanyi Okereke, Ebere Ilori, Elsie Ihekweazu, Chikwe |
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description | Across the world, the level of pandemic preparedness varies and no country is fully prepared to respond to all public health events. The International Health Regulations 2005 require state parties to develop core capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to public health events of international concern. In addition to annual self-assessment, these capacities are peer reviewed once every 5 years through the voluntary Joint External Evaluation (JEE). In this article, we share Nigeria's experience of conducting a country-led midterm self-assessment using a slightly modified application of the second edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) JEE and the new WHO benchmarks tool. Despite more stringent scoring criteria in the revised JEE tool, average scoring showed modest capacity improvements in 2019 compared with 2017. Of the 19 technical areas assessed, 11 improved, 5 did not change, and 3 had lower scores. No technical area attained the highest-level scoring of 5. Understanding the level of, and gaps in, pandemic preparedness enables state parties to develop plans to improve health security; the outcome of the assessment included the development of a 12-month operational plan. Countries need to intentionally invest in preparedness by using existing frameworks (eg, JEE) to better understand the status of their preparedness. This will ensure ownership of developed plans with shared responsibilities by all key stakeholders across all levels of government. |
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spelling | pubmed-88929652022-03-03 Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise Fasominu, Olukayode Okunromade, Oyeladun Oyebanji, Oyeronke Lee, Christopher T. Atanda, Adejare Mamadu, Ibrahim Okudo, Ifeanyi Okereke, Ebere Ilori, Elsie Ihekweazu, Chikwe Health Secur Original Articles Across the world, the level of pandemic preparedness varies and no country is fully prepared to respond to all public health events. The International Health Regulations 2005 require state parties to develop core capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to public health events of international concern. In addition to annual self-assessment, these capacities are peer reviewed once every 5 years through the voluntary Joint External Evaluation (JEE). In this article, we share Nigeria's experience of conducting a country-led midterm self-assessment using a slightly modified application of the second edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) JEE and the new WHO benchmarks tool. Despite more stringent scoring criteria in the revised JEE tool, average scoring showed modest capacity improvements in 2019 compared with 2017. Of the 19 technical areas assessed, 11 improved, 5 did not change, and 3 had lower scores. No technical area attained the highest-level scoring of 5. Understanding the level of, and gaps in, pandemic preparedness enables state parties to develop plans to improve health security; the outcome of the assessment included the development of a 12-month operational plan. Countries need to intentionally invest in preparedness by using existing frameworks (eg, JEE) to better understand the status of their preparedness. This will ensure ownership of developed plans with shared responsibilities by all key stakeholders across all levels of government. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2022-02-01 2022-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8892965/ /pubmed/35020486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/hs.2021.0095 Text en © Olukayode Fasominu, et al., 2021; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Fasominu, Olukayode Okunromade, Oyeladun Oyebanji, Oyeronke Lee, Christopher T. Atanda, Adejare Mamadu, Ibrahim Okudo, Ifeanyi Okereke, Ebere Ilori, Elsie Ihekweazu, Chikwe Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise |
title | Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise |
title_full | Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise |
title_fullStr | Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise |
title_full_unstemmed | Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise |
title_short | Reviewing Health Security Capacities in Nigeria Using the Updated WHO Joint External Evaluation and WHO Benchmarks Tool: Experience from a Country-Led Self-Assessment Exercise |
title_sort | reviewing health security capacities in nigeria using the updated who joint external evaluation and who benchmarks tool: experience from a country-led self-assessment exercise |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8892965/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35020486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/hs.2021.0095 |
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