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(jì)量日 國(guó)際計(jì)量局和國(guó)際法制計(jì)量局 領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人寄語(yǔ) 測(cè)量支撐衛(wèi)生保健 2021年的世界計(jì)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(chǎng)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(yán)重程度迫使各國(guó)政府迅速做出反應(yīng)。自一開(kāi)始，新的測(cè)量需求就不斷涌現(xiàn)：首先是針對(duì)病毒是否存在的大規(guī)模檢測(cè)以及針對(duì)個(gè)人防護(hù)設(shè)備性能的大規(guī)模測(cè)試；隨后，疫苗的開(kāi)發(fā)又對(duì)復(fù)雜蛋白質(zhì)和RNA分子的準(zhǔn)確識(shí)別和計(jì)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(guó)的優(yōu)先事項(xiàng)。各國(guó)政府都將重點(diǎn)重新放在既有的科學(xué)能力上，希望能以此應(yīng)對(duì)這場(chǎng)挑戰(zhàn)，保護(hù)人民免受病毒影響。全球計(jì)量界也置身其間，參與應(yīng)對(duì)這些新出現(xiàn)的國(guó)家挑戰(zhàn)和全球挑戰(zhàn)，并利用測(cè)量科學(xué)領(lǐng)域積累的豐富經(jīng)驗(yàn)來(lái)滿足國(guó)家需求，例如： · 建立系統(tǒng)以測(cè)試個(gè)人防護(hù)所需的口罩； · 為醫(yī)院所需的新呼吸機(jī)系統(tǒng)的設(shè)計(jì)和測(cè)試做出貢獻(xiàn)； · 識(shí)別并計(jì)數(shù)檢驗(yàn)樣品中的病毒分子；以及 · 衡量疫苗劑量的功效。 計(jì)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(cè)量需求，從而實(shí)現(xiàn)對(duì)健康利益的保護(hù)和改善。這些能力包括： · 為各類具有測(cè)量功能的醫(yī)療器械制定國(guó)際標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，包括自動(dòng)血壓儀、眼科器械和醫(yī)用注射器； · 支持臨床實(shí)驗(yàn)室檢測(cè)，確保醫(yī)用體溫計(jì)的測(cè)量值符合國(guó)際公認(rèn)的溫度標(biāo)度； · 確?；颊咴谠\斷過(guò)程中承受的X射線劑量是合規(guī)的；以及 · 為癌癥治療中準(zhǔn)確的放射治療劑量提供支撐。 我們之所以選擇“測(cè)量支撐衛(wèi)生保健”作為今年世界計(jì)量日的主題，就是為了提請(qǐng)人們注意測(cè)量對(duì)保護(hù)健康所起到的重要支撐作用。值此關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻，曾經(jīng)寄希望于全球計(jì)量組織而建立的各項(xiàng)經(jīng)驗(yàn)和能力，在短時(shí)間內(nèi)都投入到了這場(chǎng)新的國(guó)家衛(wèi)生挑戰(zhàn)的應(yīng)對(duì)之中。 祝各位2021年世界計(jì)量日取得圓滿成功，并希望收到大家舉辦相關(guān)活動(dòng)的宣傳海報(bào)以及詳細(xì)信息。 ———編譯：李莉萍
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