Infection Risk Management Report on Pandemic Response

This report delves into the critical aspects of infection risk management, emphasizing pandemic response and the multi-sector approach. The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for a global alert and response system, necessitating collaboration across various sectors like government, medical, and public health agencies. This integrated approach aims to mitigate the impact of pandemics, focusing on reducing the severity of outbreaks through effective communication and coordinated action. The report highlights how multi-sectoral strategies have been instrumental in improving surveillance and reporting, ultimately fostering better interactions between agencies to combat the spread of diseases. The importance of these collaborations is emphasized by the successful implementation of the approach by many countries.

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World Health organization has been urging countries to come together to effectively
respond to emergency pandemic cases and take timely action to save the lives of people. The
WHO envisions an integrated global alert and response system for pandemic and developing an
effective international system for coordinated response (World Health Organization, 2018). This
implies that multi-sector involvement is necessary to prioritize public health action and take
necessary steps to reduce the suffering of the affected people. Multi-sector involvement is part
of societal level measures to reduce the spread of disease. This is possible by proper
collaboration with multiple sectors such as government agencies, medical, scientific agencies
and public health agencies. The advantage of such involvement is that it can immediately
mitigate non-health impacts of a severe pandemic (Maunula, 2013). However, such collaboration
with multiple emergencies for a pandemic crisis is a complex task as it requires proper goals for
public communication to take effective response for affected people in communities.
In response to severe influenza pandemic, many governments adopted the multi-sector
approach. They took this step after realizing the fact that severe pandemic has an impact not only
on health, but also on other socioeconomic needs of the population. From the review of
achievements of those who adopted the multi-sector approach, it can be said that multiple sector
networks have managed to reach the goal of reducing severity of pandemic mainly by creating a
culture of collaboration. Such collaboration has been the cornerstone for better interactions
between agencies and they have supported the implementation of proper surveillance and
reporting services to respond to pandemics (Nordbeck & Steurer, 2016).

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