The aim of the International Health Regulations IHR (2005) is to “prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade” (art. 2 IHR(2005)).
The purpose of the project is to conduct a legal epidemiology study to observe the content of national laws implementing IHR(2005) adopted by World Health Assembly in May 2005 and map their content following the scientific policy surveillance. The expected outcome of the project is to accelerate the implementation of the IHR (2005) in the European Region.
Legal epidemiology is the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution, prevention of disease and injury in a population.
