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0000-0001-8834-1886
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Australian National University
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
DOI: 10.1016/J.TMAID.2021.102181
Abstract: Under the International Health Regulations (2005), World Health Organization Member States need to verify certification of polio-free status annually. In 2018, Australia sought to reassess and comprehensively characterise the risk posed by wild-type and vaccine-derived poliovirus introductions to national health security. However formal guidelines for national polio risk assessment were not publicly available. Four risk elements were identified and weighted using an expert-informed modified Delphi method: reintroduction hazard population susceptibility detection capability and response capability. Australian data and qualitative evidence were analysed, documented and scored against risk element indicators to characterise polio risk as a semi-quantitative estimate and qualitative risk category statement. The semi-quantitative risk characterisation calculated likelihood and impact scores of 0.43 and 0.13, respectively (possible range: 0.02-4.5). The assessment concluded that the risk of poliovirus reintroduction, resultant outbreaks of poliovirus infection, and sustained transmission occurring in Australia is very low. Until poliovirus is eradicated, it remains in countries' strategic health security interest to maintain optimal investment in polio prevention, preparedness, surveillance and response capability to manage their level of risk. We present a structured, transparent and reproducible methodology for national or sub-national polio risk characterisation that generates evidence for targeted investment to maintain polio-free status.
Publisher: Australian Government Department of Health
Date: 05-11-2020
Abstract: Since the introduction of COVID-19-related public health measures, notifications for most nationally notifiable diseases have declined when compared to previous years. Physical distancing, travel restrictions, and emphasis on hygiene are likely to have affected the number of expected notifications, with the greatest reductions observed among disease spread via person-to-person contact such as influenza, and among overseas-acquired infections such as dengue virus and measles. However, quantifying the magnitude of the effect of COVID-19 public health measures on communicable diseases in Australia will be difficult, due to confounding factors such as: changes in testing priorities in laboratories ersion of resources to the COVID-19 response changes in health-seeking behaviours greater utilisation of telehealth practices and financial impacts such as income loss and ability to afford healthcare. It is considered likely that these other factors will have also impacted notification numbers.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
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