Definition of Keywords
Animals:
mean animals as defined as "goods" in the IHR (2005). Animals as "reservoirs" or "vectors" are found under the keyword "vectors and reservoirs".
Baggage:
means the personal effects of a traveller.
Cargo:
means goods carried on a conveyance or in a container.
Contact tracing:
means the investigation procedure aimed at acquiring contact information in order to approach contacts that were potentially exposed to pathogens. Contact tracing also comprises the correct handling of personal data.
Container:
means an article of transport equipment:
(a) of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use;
(b) specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods by one or more modes of transport,
without intermediate reloading;
(c) fitted with devices permitting its ready handling, particularly its transfer from one mode
of transport to another; and
(d) specially designed as to be easy to fill and empty;
Conveyance:
is used as a keyword if inspection, cleaning, disinfection or maintenance procedures are applied to an aircraft.
Coordination:
means the organization of public health procedures in the aviation sector so as to enable the competent personnel to work together effectively. Therefore, the keyword “coordination” also covers multi-sectoral collaboration.
Disinfection, Disinsection, Deratting, Decontamination:
“Decontamination” means a procedure whereby health measures are taken to eliminate an infectious or toxic agent or matter on a human or animal body surface, in or on a product prepared for consumption or on other inanimate objects, including conveyances, that may constitute a public health risk;
“Deratting” means the procedure whereby health measures are taken to control or kill rodent vectors of human disease present in baggage, cargo, containers, conveyances, facilities, goods and postal parcels at the point of entry;
“Disinfection” means the procedure whereby health measures are taken to control or kill infectious agents on a human or animal body surface or in or on baggage, cargo, containers, conveyances, goods and postal parcels by direct exposure to chemical or physical agents;
“Disinsection” means the procedure whereby health measures are taken to control or kill the insect vectors of human diseases present in baggage, cargo, containers, conveyances, goods and postal parcels;
The keyword also comprises trained personnel, special equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE).
Emergency planning:
means the process of developing a strategy to manage crises related to public health threats.
External communication:
means the exchange of information with travellers, the press and other stakeholders not directly involved in the event (e.g. travel agencies; international organizations involved with migration; other airports in the same region or outside region).
Flight restrictions:
means denial of clearance to land for aircrafts on an airport. It encompasses “free pratique” and “airport closure”.
Goods:
mean tangible products, including animals and plants, transported on an international voyage, including for utilization on board a conveyance.
Human remains:
means the body of a deceased person in any stage of decomposition or after cremation.
Identification of ill travellers:
means the determination that a traveller is suspected to suffer from a communicable disease.
Inspection:
means the examination, by the competent authority or under its supervision, of areas, baggage, containers, conveyances, facilities, goods or postal parcels, including relevant data and documentation, to determine if a public health risk exists. It also comprises trained personnel and specific equipment for inspection.
Internal communication:
means the exchange of information about public health topics within the aviation and the health sector via a specific communication infrastructure (e.g. meetings, use of telephones, PC, fax).
Isolation:
means separation of ill or contaminated persons from others in such a manner as to prevent the spread of infection or contamination.
Management of suspect or affected travellers (at-airport):
means handling of suspect or affected travellers at the airport after arrival or before departure.
Management of suspect or affected travellers (in-flight):
means handling of suspect or affected travellers during the flight.
Medical management of ill travellers (post-travel):
means provision of medical care to ill persons off the airport, after a flight and temporally separated from the flight. For example, a person being diagnosed with tuberculosis days or weeks after the flight took place.
Medical management of ill travellers (pre-travel):
means provision of medical care to ill persons off the airport, before a flight and temporally separated from the flight. For example, a person being diagnosed with tuberculosis days or weeks before the flight takes place.
Notification:
means first reporting of an identified public health risk within the aviation sector and to the competent public health authority and first reporting to other levels of the public health system (e.g. WHO).
Off-Airport Medical Service:
means the provision of medical care to ill travellers off the airport.
Postal parcel:
means an addressed article or package carried internationally by postal or
courier services.
Quarantine:
means the restriction of activities and/or separation from others of suspect persons who are not ill or of suspect baggage, containers, conveyances or goods in such a manner as to prevent the possible spread of infection or contamination.
Safe environment:
means that travellers who use point of entry facilities have access to potable water supplies, eating establishments, flight catering facilities, public washrooms, appropriate solid and liquid waste disposal services and other potential risk areas, by conducting inspection programmes, as appropriate.
Sampling:
means the collection of specimens from travellers (e.g. from blood, secreta, excreta), baggage, cargo, containers, conveyances, goods, postal parcels or human remains who pose or may pose a public health risk. It also comprises trained personnel, special equipment and personal protective equipment (PPE) as well as safe transport of samples.
Screening:
means the systematic process of identifying suspect or ill travellers. It may require non-invasive medical examinations performed by non-medical or medical personnel, at special premises and with specific equipment, for example entry and exit controls.
Training:
means the action of teaching personnel to make them capable to respond to a public health threat in the aviation sector in a coordinated and effective way. It also includes testing of communication plans and channels.
Transport:
means the transfer of ill travellers in a conveyance, a road vehicle or another means of transport to a medical service. It also comprises trained personnel and specific equipment.
Travel restrictions:
means that travellers are advised to delay travel or that boarding is denied.
Vaccination:
means giving immunization or other protective treatment for disease (prophylaxes).
Vectors and Reservoirs:
“Reservoir” means an animal, plant or substance in which an infectious agent normally lives and whose presence may constitute a public health risk.
“Vector” means an insect or other animal which normally transports an infectious agent that constitutes a public health risk.