Medical Sciences Forum (Dec 2022)
SHIPSAN Routine Inspections between 2018 and 2022
- Leonidas Kourentis,
- Eleni P. Christoforidou,
- Mauro Dionisio,
- Miguel Dávila-Cornejo,
- Antonis Kantonis,
- Boris Kopilovic,
- Erika Grigorevičė,
- Iveta Dubrovova,
- Martina Pilková,
- Mairin Boland,
- Martin Dirksen-Fischer,
- Natalja Vozelevskaja,
- Raf Van Den Bogaert,
- Thijs Veenstra,
- Jaret Ames,
- Antonello Campagna,
- Nikolaos Bitsolas,
- Christos Hadjichristodoulou,
- Varvara Mouchtouri,
- the EU HEALTHY GATEWAYS Joint Action Partnership
Affiliations
- Leonidas Kourentis
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece
- Eleni P. Christoforidou
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece
- Mauro Dionisio
- Directorate General for Health Prevention, Ministry of Health, 00144 Rome, Italy
- Miguel Dávila-Cornejo
- Deputy Directorate General of Foreign Health, Directorate General for Public Health, Ministry of Health, 28014 Madrid, Spain
- Antonis Kantonis
- Food Control and Environmental Health Services, Ministry of Health, Nicosia 1449, Cyprus
- Boris Kopilovic
- Centre for Communicable Diseases, National Institute of Public Health, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Erika Grigorevičė
- National Public Health Centre under the Ministry of Health, LT-08221 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Iveta Dubrovova
- Department of Chief Public Health Officer, Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Martina Pilková
- Department of Chief Public Health Officer, Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Mairin Boland
- Public Health Medicine, Health Services Executive, D20 DV79 Dublin, Ireland
- Martin Dirksen-Fischer
- Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, Hamburg Port Health Center, 20537 Hamburg, Germany
- Natalja Vozelevskaja
- Department of CD Surveillance and Control, Health Board, 10617 Tallinn, Estonia
- Raf Van Den Bogaert
- Internationale Betrekkingen-Public Health Emergency, Saniport Public Health Authority, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
- Thijs Veenstra
- National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control (LCI), National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Jaret Ames
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece
- Antonello Campagna
- Directorate General for Health Prevention, Ministry of Health, 00144 Rome, Italy
- Nikolaos Bitsolas
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece
- Christos Hadjichristodoulou
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece
- Varvara Mouchtouri
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece
- the EU HEALTHY GATEWAYS Joint Action Partnership
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/msf2022013018
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
p. 18
Abstract
The aim of the study is to describe the routine inspections conducted by competent Public Health Authorities (PHAs) on board passenger ships (cruise ships, inland vessels or ferries) sailing in European countries during the EU HEALTHY GATEWAYS joint action and according to the hygiene standards set out in the European Manual for Hygiene Standards and Communicable Disease Surveillance on Passenger Ships (Edition 2nd, April 2016). From 2018 to the end of April 2022, 138 inspection reports were submitted by PHAs in 38 ports in SIS by 76 inspectors, three SHIPSAN experts, 16 inspectors in training and 31 observers, along with 130 Corrective Action Statements by shipping companies or officers of ships.
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