Immunization Technical Area
The World Health Organization (WHO) is instrumental in monitoring the health of people, including special populations, around the world. With input from countries, WHO establishes goals and benchmarks for health markers.
After reviewing the WHO benchmarks for International Health Regulations (IHR) Capacities in the background readings, choose a technical area for which benchmarks are provided and provide an explanation of it.
Explain each level of the benchmarks.
What is the value of having a global body that provides guidance for country-level health policy and benchmarking?
SLP Assignment Expectations
Limit your response to 2-3 pages.
Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to justify/support your analysis.
Support your paper with a minimum of 3 reliable sources. The course textbook counts as one, and at least one of the others should be a peer-reviewed article. Use How to Recognize Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journals - http://www(dot)angelo(dot)edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php
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SLP4: Immunization Technical Area
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SLP4: Immunization Technical Area
The World Health Organization (WHO) has established benchmarks for diverse technical areas to strengthen global actions against emergencies and maintain preparedness. Immunization is one of the areas of focus that the WHO has created benchmarks to ensure countries implement appropriate strategies for combating diverse vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). According to the WHO (2019), the standards guide nations to ensure they have appropriate vaccine delivery systems that can reach all populations, including the marginalized ones, and provide comprehensive immunization against diverse preventable diseases. This focus includes measles, which WHO considers a proxy indicator due to its persistent presence in the population and morbidity and mortality impacts. Thus, this benchmark covers immunization of varied conditions with national threats, including Japanese encephalitis, cholera, meningococcal illness, and other infectious diseases transmitted from animals to humans.
WHO recognizes that global nations are not in the same capacity to address the VPDs. As a result, it has set two