Surveillance of childhood vaccinepreventable diseases at health facilities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Nk, Ibrahim; Hm, Al Bar

doi:10.26719/2009.15.3.532

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“…Ibrahim NK, Al Bar HM. 2009[ 7 ] To assess health facilities' performance and health workers' knowledge of surveillance activities for childhood vaccine-preventable diseases. Quantitative, cross-sectional analytical study C 8.…”

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“…Further indicators to assess effectiveness of containment measures need to be calculated [ 28 ]. The usual surveillance indicators as the sensitivity, specificity of surveillance, timeliness and completeness of the surveillance reports can be also calculated [ 7 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Surveillance can influence the timeliness of policy application, public risk perception and decision making [ 12 ]. All levels of government and healthcare system need detailed and timely information about the availability and shortages of the key resources [ 7 , 12 ]. This can slow Covid-19 growth, or even ending the pandemic [ 24 ].…”

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“…Surveillance is “the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data regarding a health-related event; for doing actions”. Surveillance is a critical part of public health practice [ 7 ]. Real-time analyses of epidemiological data are urgently required for increasing the awareness about the problem and for prompt interventions [ 8 ].…”

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Epidemiologic surveillance for controlling Covid-19 pandemic: types, challenges and implications

Ibrahim

2020

Journal of Infection and Public Health

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The objectives of the study was to determine the types, challenges and implications of surveillance methods for controlling Covid-19 pandemic. An integrative article review was done. The source of data were documents from WHO, Euro-surveillance, CDC, Saudi CDC, MOH, and journals from PubMed, Medline, etc. The inclusion searching criteria were surveillance, Covid-19, types, benefits and challenges, during the period 2005−2020. Published studies, reviews and guidelines that determined these criteria were collected. Data extraction and analysis were completed for all included articles. A critical appraisal was done based on the University of Michigan Practice Guideline’s levels of evidence. The final sample for the integrative review comprised 30 studies. Results revealed that types of Covid-9 surveillance includes routine surveillance (comprehensive, case-based, and aggregated weakly methods), active, wildlife, syndromic, sentinel and sentinel-syndromic methods. Laboratory and hospital-based surveillance are another important types. Help-lines, surveys, participatory electronic, digital and event-based surveillance are relatively new cost-effective methods. Many surveillance indicators can be calculated. Timely and accurate of surveillance data is an essential element for effective Covid-19 interventions. Regarding challenges, the quality of surveillance in developing countries is constrained by resources and training. The main limitations of surveillance are under-ascertainment/under-reporting, lack of timeliness and completeness of surveillance data. In conclusion, surveillance is a cornerstones for controlling Covid-19 pandemic. Enhancing Covid-19 surveillance is vital for rapid cases detection, containing spread & ending pandemic.

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Epidemiologic surveillance for controlling Covid-19 pandemic: types, challenges and implications

Ibrahim

2020

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“…While other researchers have explored knowledge, attitudes and practices about surveillance among doctors [ 17 , 18 ], surveillance coordinators [ 17 , 19 ], infection control officers [ 20 ] and community members [ 21 ] there is scant understanding about the knowledge and views of nurses with respect to their early warning surveillance roles and the impact these have on their practice. With communicable outbreak-prone diseases significant contributors to the burden of disease in most developing countries and nurse-based syndromic surveillance a much relied upon early detection strategy, this study aims to fill a knowledge gap by identifing factors that support and undermine surveillance practice and hence the quality, and ultimately utility, of data on which outbreak intelligence is based.…”

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Towards effective outbreak detection: a qualitative study to identify factors affecting nurses’ early warning surveillance practice in Solomon Islands

Craig

Joshua²,

Sio³

et al. 2018

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundIntelligence generated by a surveillance system is dependent on the quality of data that are collected. We investigated the knowledge, attitudes and practices of nurses responsible for outbreak early warning surveillance data collection in Solomon Islands to identify factors that influence their ability to perform surveillance-related tasks with rigour.MethodsWe interviewed 12 purposively selected surveillance nurses and conducted inductive analysis on resulting data.ResultsInterviewees were knowledgeable and willing to contribute to the surveillance system. Constraining factors included the perception that surveillance was less important than patient care and could be ‘deferred’ during busy periods and wide variability in the application of case definitions. Motivating factors were frequent in-clinic training, formal recognition for good performance, incentives and designation of a focal point. Nurses held mixed views about the effect of mobile technologies on surveillance practice.ConclusionsThis study identified several challenges to consistent and accurate data collection and reporting. Engagement of different parts of the health system, including human resources and health facilities’ management, is needed to address these challenges.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12913-018-3508-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Assessment of core and support functions of the communicable disease surveillance system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Hamalaw

Bayati

Babakir‐Mina

et al. 2021

Journal of Medical Virology

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Early detection and prompt response are crucial measures to prevent and control outbreaks. Public health agencies, therefore, designed the Communicable Disease Surveillance System (CDSS) to obtain essential data instantaneously to be used for appropriate action. However, a periodic evaluation of CDSS is indispensable to ensure the functionality of the system. For this reason, this study aims to assess the performance of the core and support functions of the CDSS in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. A descriptive cross-sectional study was used. From a total of 291 health facilities HFs (Primary health care centers and Hospitals) in the Kurdistan region of Iraq that have surveillance activities, 74 HFs were selected using a random stratified sampling approach. The World Health Organization (WHO) generic questionnaire has been used to interview the surveillance staff, together with direct collection of the data. Our analysis shows a lack of surveillance guiding manual in the HFs. Even at the district level, where a surveillance manual existed, case definitions, thresholds, and control measures were still missing. To note, more than 93% of HFs had organized and comprehensive patients registers for the collection of their clinical and secondary data. Also, all HFs had functioning laboratories. The majority of them (almost 93%) were equipped to collect, process, and store blood, stool, and urine specimens. About 72% of these laboratories were also able to transport timely the specimens to more specialized laboratories. At all levels, data reporting to the higher level exceeded the recommended minimum rate of 80%. The reporting system at the district level was based on emails, while in the periphery on hand-delivered in paperbased formats (50%), telephone (22%), and social media (22%). Furthermore, our analysis highlights the lack of data analysis: only 3.8% of Primary Health Care Centers conduct simple data analysis regularly, while hospitals do not do any sort of analysis. Also, only a few HFs investigated an outbreak, though using system routine sources to capture these public health events. Our findings show a lack in epidemicThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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Surveillance of childhood vaccinepreventable diseases at health facilities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Epidemiologic surveillance for controlling Covid-19 pandemic: types, challenges and implications

Epidemiologic surveillance for controlling Covid-19 pandemic: types, challenges and implications

Towards effective outbreak detection: a qualitative study to identify factors affecting nurses’ early warning surveillance practice in Solomon Islands

Assessment of core and support functions of the communicable disease surveillance system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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