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Jun 24, 2022 · An effective disease surveillance system is essential to detecting disease outbreaks quickly before they spread, cost lives and become difficult to control. Effective surveillance can improve disease outbreak detection in emergency settings, such as in countries in conflict or following a natural disaster.
- Disease Surveillance
An effective disease surveillance system is essential to...
- WHO Recommended Surveillance Standards
This document has been produced jointly by technical...
- Public health surveillance for COVID -19
This section provides an overview of surveillance approaches...
- Disease Surveillance
An effective disease surveillance system is essential to detect disease outbreaks quickly before they spread, cost lives and become difficult to control. Effective surveillance can improve disease outbreak detection in emergency settings, such as in countries in conflict or following a natural disaster.
Feb 2, 1999 · This document has been produced jointly by technical clusters of WHO, as well as by UNAIDS, in order to bring together WHO recommended standards for the surveillance of communicable diseases.
Surveillance is a key tool for public health decision making in all countries. Photo credit:WHO Public health surveillance is the continuous and systematic collection, orderly consolidation and evaluation of pertinent data with prompt dissemination of results to those who need to know, particularly those who are in a position to take action.
surveillance requires a substantial and long-term commitment of human and material resources, usually beginning with a systematic assessment of national surveillance activities.
Surveillance for COVID-19 remains critical to ending the COVID-19 emergency worldwide and informing public health actions to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and reduce morbidity, mortality and impact.
This section provides an overview of surveillance approaches that Member States should consider for comprehensive national surveillance for COVID-19. The section emphasizes the need to adapt and reinforce existing national systems where appropriate and to scale up surveillance capacities as needed.