Application of an innovative grid-based surveillance strategy to ensure elimination and prevent reintroduction of malaria in high-risk border communities in China

Abstract

Grid management is a grassroots governance strategy widely implemented in China since 2004 to improve the government’s efficiency to actively find and solve problems among populated regions. A grid-based strategy surveillancing high-risk groups, including mobile and migrant populations (MMPs), in the China–Myanmar border region has played an indispensable role in promoting and consolidating the malaria elimination efforts by tracking and timely identification of potential importation or re-establishment of malaria among MMPs. A sequential mixed methods was implementated to explore the operational mechanism and best practices of the grid-based strategy including through the focus group discussions (FGDs), comparison of before and after the implementation of a grid-based strategy in the field sites, and data collection from the local health system.This paper distills the implementation mechanism and highlights the role of the grid-based strategy in the elimination and prevention of re-establishment of malaria transmission.

Management of a nursing unit in a COVID‐19 shelter hospital in China: A case study

“…Grid management is a grassroots governance strategy that originated from the 2003 SARS crisis in China (Ling & Wen, 2020). The strategy is aimed at dividing the management objects into several responsibility unit grids according to the geographical layout among populated regions (Lu et al., 2022). It is an effective and useful measure to simplify complexity, divide work responsibilities, maintain work order and improve productivity.…”