Are countries’ self-reported assessments of their capacity for infectious disease control reliable? Associations among countries’ self-reported international health regulation 2005 capacity assessments and infectious disease control outcomes

Table 1 Scores of IHR core capacities reported by country in 2016 and 2017

	Self-reported IHR Scores
	2016 (N of countries = 72)				2017 (N of countries = 84)
	Mean	SD	Range	N of country scored 100	Mean	SD	Range	N of country scored 100
IHR core capacitites
Legislation	84.61	29.36	0~100	45	85.31	28.10	0~100	48
Coordination	91.88	13.84	20~100	37	90.18	19.80	0~100	45
Surveillance	93.55	10.5	30~100	26	90.28	12.09	25~100	20
Response	88.88	20.11	0~100	29	86.10	23.59	6~100	25
Preparedness	87.59	21.75	0~100	29	83.00	27.33	0~100	32
Risk communication	90.01	18.12	14~100	39	86.31	24.55	14~100	39
Human resources	80.61	24.94	0~100	31	77.31	26.42	0~100	34
Laboratory	85.44	18.62	39~100	24	90.35	17.31	17~100	27
Points of entry	75.56	34.9	0~100	12	68.23	37.70	0~100	11
Zoonosis	94.42	12.86	33~100	49	91.95	15.45	22~100	49
Food safety	83.16	18.57	0~100	30	85.21	22.30	0~100	36
Average score of 8 core capacities*	87.82	15.46	35.38~100	8	86.11	19.69	24.13~100	6

* 8 core capacities included legislation, coordination, surveillance, response, preparedness, risk communication, human resources and laboratory

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