How unprepared is the globe as a whole? Act now to improve readiness for high-consequence infectious disease outbreaks

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On behalf of the Integrative Journal of Global Health, as Editor-In-Chief it is my great pleasure and honor to welcome scientific community from around the globe to the journal.

No Country is Fully Prepared for High-Consequence Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Many countries lack essential public health and health system capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to health emergencies. Health security is both a public health and an international security imperative. Significant outbreaks will likely continue to occur. Increases in international travel, mass displacement, migration, climate change, land-use change, and urbanization can enable pathogens to emerge and spread widely, increasing the potential for uncontained outbreaks to become epidemics and pandemics.

How unprepared is the globe as a whole? According to a recent study out of a possible score of 100 points, the average (Global Health Security) GHS Index score across 195 countries and combined categories was 40.2. Even countries with more resources are not ready, as the majority of high- and middle-income countries do not score above 50. What these results tell us is that action is urgently needed to improve countries’ readiness for high-consequence infectious disease outbreaks.

Integrative Journal of Global Health aims to disseminate knowledge and promote discussion through the publication of peer-reviewed, high quality research papers on all topics related to Global Health emphasizing on high-consequence infectious disease outbreaks. The open access journal is published by Insight Medical Publishing (iMedPub) which is a comprehensive destination for the recent and the latest discoveries in the science, technology, medicine, and engineering. Established in 2005, iMedPub has been serving the scientific community relentlessly with its open access platform for publishing the research outcome to reach the global scientific fraternity.

The scope of the Journal include a wide range of subjects related to global health, climate change, environmental studies, food and clinical sciences, reaching out to analytical scientists worldwide. The Journal emphasizes on high-level research education and development. Original research articles, reviews, short communications, and letters to the editors in the field of health are accepted. Every effort is made to have a quality, rigorous, critical peer-review and rapid publishing process.

Realizing the importance of this field, OMICS Group is organizing prestigious conferences worldwide. The Conferences will provide a great scope for interaction of professionals including medical experts, top-level clinicians and research scientists from around the globe, on a single platform.

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Regards

Michael Wayne
Associate Managing Editor
Integrative Journal of Global Health
E-mail: globalhealth@escientificjournals.com
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