seCTIon 2: vIsIon, Goal and objeCTIves
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2.1 Vision
An Asia Paciic region prepared to miigate the risk and impact of emerging diseases and other public health emergencies through collecive responsibility for public health
security.
Vision an asia Paciic region prepared to mitigate the risk and impact of emerging
diseases and other public health emergencies through collective responsibility for public health security.
Objective 1
Reduce risk
Objective 2
strengthen early detection
Objective 3
strengthen rapid
response
Objective 4
strengthen efective
preparedness
Objective 5
build sustainable partnerships
Goal To build sustainable national and regional capacities and partnerships to ensure
public health security through preparedness planning, prevention, early detection and rapid response to emerging diseases and other public health emergencies.
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Figure 2.1 APSED 2010 vision, goal, objectives and focus areas
SECTION 2: Vision, Goal and Objectives
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STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR WHO TECHNICAL AND COUNTRY WORK:
GeTTInG THe RIGHT foCUs
2.2 Goal
To build sustainable naional and regional capaciies and partnerships to ensure public health security through preparedness planning, prevenion, early detecion and rapid
response to emerging diseases and other public health emergencies.
2.3 Objectives
To achieve the goal, ive interrelated objecives have been ideniied.
• Objecive 1: Reduce the risk of emerging diseases. • Objecive 2: Strengthen early detecion of outbreaks of emerging diseases and
public health emergencies.
• Objecive 3: Strengthen rapid response to emerging diseases and public health
emergencies.
• Objecive 4: Strengthen efecive preparedness for emerging diseases and
public health emergencies.
• Objecive 5: Build sustainable technical collaboraion and partnership in the
Asia Paciic region.
2.4 Focus areas
To provide a focus for operaional programme work and to achieve the goal and objecives of the Strategy, the following focus areas have been ideniied:
1 surveillance, risk assessment and response; 2 laboratories;
3 zoonoses; 4 infecion prevenion and control;
5 risk communicaions; 6 public health emergency preparedness;
7 regional preparedness, alert and response; and 8 monitoring and evaluaion.
Focus areas 1 to 6 primarily aim at naional and local capacity-building. Focus area 7 addresses strengthened WHO regional preparedness, surveillance, risk assessment
and response systems. Focus area 8 refers to the monitoring and evaluaion of APSED
2010 implementaion aciviies at both naional and regional levels.