The world health report 2007 : a safer future : global public health security in the 21st century

Overview

At a time when the world faces many new and recurring threats, the ambitious aim of this year’s World Health Report is to show how collective international public health action can build a safer future for humanity.

This is the overall goal of global public health security. For the purposes of this report, global public health security is defined as the activities required, both proactive and reactive, to minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical regions and international boundaries.