Hepatitis B and C are viruses that infect the liver and can silently progress to become serious diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Effective antiviral treatment is available and timely treatment of eligible patients can prevent hepatitis-related burden of disease and death. The main...

Analyses of pandemic preparedness policies revealed weaknesses in control systems of European nations. This reinforces the need to support countries in their endeavours to prevent and contain pandemics. A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) was applied to a generic plan to...

In this article we present a novel conceptual framework for systematically assessing the national health system capacity to respond to pandemic influenza. This framework helps to determine how health systems and pandemic programmes interact, whether, where and which weak points exist, and how...