Abstract:
:From August 2016 to June 2017, the Public Health England-Centre for Radiation Chemical and Environmental Hazards (PHE-CRCE), collaborating centre of the WHO, through its Radiation Hazards and Emergencies Department Emergency Response Group has successfully supported five WHO Joint External Evaluation (JEE) missions in the Eastern Mediterranean (Jordan, Bahrain and Tunisia) and African (Kenya, Mali) regions. The JEE tool is the main document used by both internal and external expert teams as a shared methodology to assess a country's capability in term of preparedness and response to public health threats under the International Health Regulation. This is done by evaluating different indicators. 'Radiation emergencies' is one of the 19 technical fields evaluated by the JEE tool and is composed of two indicators. Each indicator is scored on a 1-5 scale, 1 being the lowest (no capability) and 5 being the highest (sustainable capability). These five countries assessed by radiation experts from PHE, for their preparedness towards radio-nuclear emergencies, were scored between 1 and 3 against the JEE tool, with sometimes similarities in the gaps identified. Points of progress and course of actions were decided for each country.
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Radiat Prot Dosimetryjournal_title
Radiation protection dosimetryauthors
de Ruvo A,Cox Ddoi
10.1093/rpd/ncy142subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-12-01 00:00:00pages
3-8issue
1eissn
0144-8420issn
1742-3406pii
5078350journal_volume
182pub_type
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