National Communicable Disease Surveillance System: A review on Information and Organizational Structures in Developed Countries

Bagherian, Hossein; Farahbakhsh, Mohammad; Rabiei, Reza; Moghaddasi, Hamid; Asadi, Farkhondeh

doi:10.5455/aim.2017.25.271-276

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“…Despite the decline in the burden of diarrhea and respiratory diseases since 2005, they still pose a major public health burden [ 3 ]. Both of these infectious diseases have always been in the 10 top causes of deaths among children, especially in low- and middle-income countries [ 4 ]. Globally, rotavirus and Streptococcus pneumoniae are the most common causes of severe diarrhea and respiratory infections in children, contributing to 28% and 18% of diarrhea cases and respiratory infections, respectively [ 2 , 5 ].…”

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Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Diarrhea and Respiratory Diseases among Children Aged 0–5 Years in a Referral Hospital of Mauritania

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Diarrhea and respiratory diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among <5-year-olds worldwide, but systematic data are not available from Mauritania. We conducted a hospital-based retrospective study. Data on admissions to Mauritania’s National Referral Hospital (the main pediatric referral center in the country), due to diarrhea and respiratory diseases, during 2011–2014, were analyzed. A total of 3695 children <5 years were hospitalized during this period; 665 (18.0%) due to respiratory diseases, and 829 (22.4%) due to diarrhea. Case fatality rates in the respiratory diseases and diarrhea groups were 18.0% (120/665) and 14.1% (117/829), respectively. The highest frequency of deaths due to diarrhea occurred in the age group 2–5 years (16/76; 21.0%), and due to respiratory diseases in the age group 6–12 months (32/141; 22.6%). We conclude that case fatality rates caused by respiratory diseases and diarrhea are extremely high in children hospitalized at the National Referral Hospital. These data call for intensified efforts to reduce deaths among hospitalized Mauritanian children, and also for integrated control measures to prevent and reduce the burden of both diseases. Additional studies are needed to show the effectiveness of the introduction of vaccination programs for pneumococcal diseases and rotavirus infection in the child population, which were launched in November 2013 and December 2014, respectively.

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Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Diarrhea and Respiratory Diseases among Children Aged 0–5 Years in a Referral Hospital of Mauritania

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“…Upon completion of each task, data could be entered into the system. Such feedback mechanisms are lacking in many surveillance systems, resulting in lower monitoring accuracy, and importantly the intelligent system is missing self-learning [8]. The target is to help field workers take quick actions based on the recommendations.…”

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MedCloud: Cloud-Based Disease Surveillance and Information Management System

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Outbreaks can overwhelm fragile health systems that lack the tools, infrastructure, policies, and systems to keep communities healthy and safe. Timely detection, preparedness, and appropriate response are essential for limiting both the loss of human life and social economic disaster due to disease outbreaks. Countries must build effective and sustainable disease surveillance and reporting systems that mobilize all levels of the health system-including communities for crisis response. In Pakistan currently, there is no centralize Health Information and Diseases Surveillance System. The current disease surveillance system is a completely manual system, where diseases are being reported through hard copies or print and electronic media. Because of the delayed process, the outbreaks are usually heard through print and electronic media. The ineffective reporting system not only creates problems in managing the countermeasures against a disease outbreak but is likely to cause mass hysteria among the people. In this paper, we propose MedCloud, a cloud-based health management system for disease surveillance and early warning with trend analysis. The proposed system provides a nationwide connected disease surveillance system with the provision of statistical data processing, data validation, and secure backup features. MedCloud is flexibly designed to easily incorporate new plugins. It uses cloud virtual machines to dynamically handle users sessions; thus, can easily and efficiently be accessed using the Internet.

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“…Meaningful impact analysis studies are dependent on high quality data (Wassenich, 2007). Pandemic response interventions in developed nations such as Australia, that are characterised by having well developed National Communicable Disease Surveillance Systems (NCDSS) in place, have at their disposal detailed longitudinal data on pandemic trajectory and impacts (Bagherian et al, 2017). In Australia, weekly epidemiology reports on the COVID-19 pandemic are published by Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI), with access to detailed data sets being available subject to ethical approval (COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team, 2020).…”

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Analysing the impact of the Australian health sector emergency response plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): A proposed approach

Buck

2020

Evaluation Journal of Australasia

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Australia, and our global counterparts, on a steep learning curve and rapid adaptation journey. Understanding the real impact of pandemic response interventions will be crucial to our collective success in this ongoing endeavour. This article will propose and outline an integrated, sequential, mixed methods approach to analysing the impact of Australia’s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic across its states and territories. We begin with a brief description of the Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). In the second section, the discussion will move on to defining the nature of impact analysis and evaluation and when to use them. The third section outlines considerations relevant to selecting an impact analysis approach as it pertains to infectious disease pandemic response and virus transmission, morbidity and mortality outcomes. The fourth section presents and discusses a conceptual framework for an integrated impact analysis approach, clearly delineating the link between proposed approach, impact analysis questions and the outlined pandemic response considerations.

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National Communicable Disease Surveillance System: A review on Information and Organizational Structures in Developed Countries

Cited by 21 publications

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Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Diarrhea and Respiratory Diseases among Children Aged 0–5 Years in a Referral Hospital of Mauritania

Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with Diarrhea and Respiratory Diseases among Children Aged 0–5 Years in a Referral Hospital of Mauritania

MedCloud: Cloud-Based Disease Surveillance and Information Management System

Analysing the impact of the Australian health sector emergency response plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): A proposed approach

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