tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " The global health governance of antimicrobial effectiveness"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The global health governance of antimicrobial effectiveness | Globalization and Health Editorial BioMed Central Open Access The global health governance of antimicrobial effectiveness Greg Martin Address London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London WC1E 7HT UK Email Greg Martin - Corresponding author Published 25 April 2006 Globalization and Health 2006 2 7 doi 1744-8603-2-7 Received 23 April 2006 Accepted 25 April 2006 This article is available from http content 2 1 7 2006 Martin licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to public health the world over. Global health governance strategies need to address the erosion of antimicrobial effectiveness on three levels. Firstly mechanisms to provide incentives for the pharmaceutical industry to develop antimicrobials for diseases threatening the developing world need to be sought out. Secondly responsible use of antimicrobials by both clinicians and the animal food growing industry needs to be encouraged and managed globally. And lastly in-country and international monitoring of changes in antimicrobial effectiveness needs to be stepped up in the context of a global health governance strategy. Four and a half billion years of evolution has left the microbes that cause disease in humans with a remarkable capacity for adaptation to changes in their micro chemical environment. This month Globalization and Health published a paper Antibiotic resistance as a global threat Evidence from China Kuwait and the United States which explores the possibility of a global spread in antimicrobial resistance AMR and a novel technique for monitoring such a phenomenon. Whether or not AMR spread will become a global