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The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises.
To address these and other threats, 2019 sees the start of the World Health Organization’s new 5-year strategic plan – the 13th General Programme of Work. This plan focuses on a triple billion target: ensuring 1 billion more people benefit from access to universal health coverage, 1 billion more people are protected from health emergencies and 1 billion more people enjoy better health and well-being. Reaching this goal will require addressing the threats to health from a variety of angles.
Here are 10 of the many issues that will demand attention from WHO and health partners in 2019.
1. Air pollution and climate change
2. Noncommunicable diseases
3. Global influenza pandemic
4. Fragile and vulnerable settings
5. Antimicrobial resistance
6. Ebola and other high-threat pathogens
7. Weak primary health care
8. Vaccine hesitancy
9. Dengue
10. HIV
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CLICK HERE - WHO - 5 Year Strategic Plan - Thirteenth general programme of work 2019−2023
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Anti-Vaccine Movement: 'Threat' to Global Health, Report Says
kvue.com - by Rebecca Flores - January 18, 2019
People choosing not to vaccinate is now a "global health threat," according to the World Health Organization . . .
. . . "Vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines – threatens to reverse progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases," the World Health Organization website states . . .
. . . The Anti-vaccine movement can be traced back to 1998 when Andrew Wakefield published a fraudulent research paper claiming there was a link between vaccines and autism. He was then stripped of his medical license for unethical behavior and his article has been debunked several times.
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Re: Anti-Vaccine Movement: Threat to Global Health, Report Says
Fig 3 - Heat map of counties with >400 kindergarteners with NMEs in 2016 to 2017 - NME, nonmedical exemption - doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002578.g003
CLICK HERE - PLOS - REPORT - The state of the antivaccine movement in the United States: A focused examination of nonmedical exemptions in states and counties
journals.plos.org - June 12, 2018 - Jacqueline K. Olive, Peter J. Hotez , Ashish Damania, Melissa S. Nolan
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002578
According to the 2015 National Immunization Survey, only 72.2% of children aged 19 to 35 months in the United States were fully vaccinated as per guidelines from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Due to parental concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy, many families choose to opt out their children from vaccinations required for school entry by obtaining nonmedical exemptions (NMEs) based on religious or philosophical beliefs. In 2016, 18 states permitted NMEs due to philosophical beliefs. A detailed analysis of NMEs within each of the 18 states reveals that several counties, including those with large metropolitan areas, are at high risk for vaccine-preventable pediatric infection epidemics.