Measurement for Health

 

World Metrology Day in 2021 comes at a time when the world is focussed on making a quick and effective recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.


The speed and severity with which the virus impacted people around the world at the beginning of 2020 forced governments to respond rapidly. Right from the beginning, new measurement requirements emerged, starting with the need for large-scale testing for the presence of the virus and the performance of personal protective equipment. Subsequently, the development of vaccines has depended on accurate identification and measurement of complex protein and RNA molecules.


The enormous scale of these requirements has changed national priorities globally; governments have re-focussed established science capabilities to meet the challenge of protecting their populations from the impact of the virus. The metrology community around the globe has been involved with these new national and global challenges, and has used its established experience of measurement science to address national needs such as by:


  • setting up systems to test masks needed for personal protection,

  • contributing to the design and testing of new ventilator systems needed in hospitals,

  • identifying and counting virus molecules in test samples, and

  • measuring the efficacy of vaccine doses.


This has been possible because of established technical capabilities to support many of the measurements needed to protect and improve health. These include:


  • developing international standards for all types of medical devices with a measuring function, including automated blood-pressure instruments, ophthalmic instruments and medical syringes,

  • underpinning clinical laboratory testing by ensuring that measurements made by medical thermometers are in line with the internationally recognised temperature scale,

  • ensuring that patients experience the correct dose of X-rays during diagnostic procedures, and

  • providing the basis for accurate therapeutic doses of radiation in the treatment of cancer.


We chose the theme “Measurement for Health” for World Metrology Day this year to draw attention to the importance of measurement to support the protection of health. It comes at a time when the experience and capabilities invested in metrology organisations around the world have been turned at short notice to address new national health challenges.


We wish you a very successful World Metrology Day 2021 and look forward to receiving your posters and details of any events you are holding.

 

2021年5?20世界計量日

國際計量局和國際法制計量局

領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人寄語


測量支撐衛(wèi)生保健


2021年的世界計量日恰逢全世界的目光都聚集在如何從全球大流行的新型冠狀病毒肺炎影響中快速有效的恢復(fù)。


這場疫情讓全世界范圍內(nèi)的人民都受到了影響。2020年初，病毒肆虐的速度和嚴重程度迫使各國政府迅速做出反應(yīng)。自一開始，新的測量需求就不斷涌現(xiàn)：首先是針對病毒是否存在的大規(guī)模檢測以及針對個人防護設(shè)備性能的大規(guī)模測試；隨后，疫苗的開發(fā)又對復(fù)雜蛋白質(zhì)和RNA分子的準確識別和計量提出了要求。


這些需求的規(guī)模如此之巨大，以至于改變了世界各國的優(yōu)先事項。各國政府都將重點重新放在既有的科學能力上，希望能以此應(yīng)對這場挑戰(zhàn)，保護人民免受病毒影響。全球計量界也置身其間，參與應(yīng)對這些新出現(xiàn)的國家挑戰(zhàn)和全球挑戰(zhàn)，并利用測量科學領(lǐng)域積累的豐富經(jīng)驗來滿足國家需求，例如：


· 建立系統(tǒng)以測試個人防護所需的口罩；

· 為醫(yī)院所需的新呼吸機系統(tǒng)的設(shè)計和測試做出貢獻；

· 識別并計數(shù)檢驗樣品中的病毒分子；以及

· 衡量疫苗劑量的功效。

 

計量界之所以能做出這些響應(yīng)，得益于已經(jīng)建立的技術(shù)能力能夠支持各種各樣的測量需求，從而實現(xiàn)對健康利益的保護和改善。這些能力包括：


· 為各類具有測量功能的醫(yī)療器械制定國際標準，包括自動血壓儀、眼科器械和醫(yī)用注射器；

· 支持臨床實驗室檢測，確保醫(yī)用體溫計的測量值符合國際公認的溫度標度；

· 確?；颊咴谠\斷過程中承受的X射線劑量是合規(guī)的；以及

· 為癌癥治療中準確的放射治療劑量提供支撐。


我們之所以選擇“測量支撐衛(wèi)生保健”作為今年世界計量日的主題，就是為了提請人們注意測量對保護健康所起到的重要支撐作用。值此關(guān)鍵時刻，曾經(jīng)寄希望于全球計量組織而建立的各項經(jīng)驗和能力，在短時間內(nèi)都投入到了這場新的國家衛(wèi)生挑戰(zhàn)的應(yīng)對之中。


祝各位2021年世界計量日取得圓滿成功，并希望收到大家舉辦相關(guān)活動的宣傳海報以及詳細信息。


———編譯：李莉萍


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