SPAR
Under the International Health Regulations(IHR) 2005 all States Parties are required to have or develop and maintain minimum core public health capacities to implement the IHR (2005), and report the status of implementation annually, as stipulated in Article 54 of the Regulations.
The percentage of global SPAR submissions reflects the proportion of 196 States Parties that have reported their annual assessment of health security capacities to WHO.
The global average capacities score represents the mean level of health security preparedness of all 196 States Parties. These are based on the aggregated scoring of the 15 reported capacities.
Multisectoral involvement in SPAR indicates how many regional States Parties reported on health security capacities involving cross-sector cooperation, reflecting an integrated approach to the assessment of public health emergency preparedness.
The formal submission of data from State Parties to the WHO via the IHR annual reports is very important and will be used as the basis for:
Detailed information on 2023 and previous years up to 2010 of the IHR annual reporting by State Parties are primarily published and available on e-SPAR platform and also at the WHO Global Health Observatory website.
