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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on April 6, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(2):119-120; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl034
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Pandemic influenza: are Europe's institutions prepared?

Sandra Mounier-Jack and Richard Coker

ECOHOST, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7Ht, UK

Correspondence: Sandra Mounier-Jack, Research Fellow, ECOHOST, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7Ht, UK, tel: +44 207 612 7802, fax: +44 (0) 207 612 7812, e-mail: sandra.mounier-jack@lshtm.ac.uk

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In December 2005, the new European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) indicated that the European Union's (EU) preparedness for a possible influenza pandemic would be ‘more or less’ complete by 2007 and noted ‘Europe will be much better prepared than any other part of the world’.1 Over the past year there has been considerable activity in planning, coordinating, and testing preparedness planning by EU institutions to meet this aim. But if effective protection is to be achieved, more attention still needs to be paid to efforts to stimulate research and development, redress inequalities in the distribution of resources including vaccines and antiviral drugs, and strengthen the coordinating role and authority of national and international institutions.

According to a survey presented at the EU-World Health Organization (WHO) joint workshop in Copenhagen in October 2005 30 of the 52 states and territories of the WHO European region had published national . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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