Integrated Disease Surveillance And Response (IDSR)
Description
Public health surveillance (also called field epidemiology) as defined by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the ongoing systematic, collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome specific data essential to the planning , implementation and evaluation of public health practises closely integrated with the timely dissemination of this data to those who need to know(1). This modern concept of surveillance includes 3 main features; the systematic collection of all relevant data, orderly consolidation and evaluation of this data and the prompt dissemination of the results to those who need to know (2). The IDSR is a strategy of the WHO Afro region adopted by the member states in 1998 as a regional strategy for strengthening weak national surveillance systems in the African region (3, 4). The DSNOs under the supervision of the Medical Officers of Health (MOHs) are responsible for surveillance activities within their Local Government catchment area. Therefore their role is very crucial to the success of the IDSR strategy.
Objective
To evaluate the immediate impact of training on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) on the knowledge of Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers (DSNOs) and the demographic characteristics associated with the change in knowledge.
Public health surveillance systems are constantly facing challenges of epidemics and shortage in the health care workforce. These challenges are more pronounced in developing countries, which bear the greatest burden of disease and where new pathogens are more likely to emerge, old ones to reemerge and drug-resistant strains to propagate. In August 2008, a mobile phone based surveillance system was piloted in 6 of the 23 districts in the state of AP in India. Health workers in 3832 hospitals and health centers used mobile phones to send reports to and receive information from the nationwide Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP). Like in many other states, the IDSP in AP is facing many operational constraints like lack of human resource, irregular supply of logistics, hard to reach health facilities, poor coordination with various health programs and poor linkages with non-state stakeholders. The mobile phone based surveillance system was an attempt to tackle some of the barriers to improving the IDSP by capitalizing on the exponential growth in numbers as well as reach of mobile phones in the state. Promising results from the pilot of the system led AP state to extend it to about 16,000 reporting units in all 23 districts. This study evaluates how the system has affected the efficiency and effectiveness of IDSP in the state.
Objective
To assess the impact of use of mobile phones use on the efficiency and effectiveness of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP)
In Rwanda, communicable diseases are the mostly predominant representing 90% of all reported medical consultations in health centers. The country has often faced epidemics including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. To enhance its preparedness to identify and respond to outbreaks and prevent epidemics, the Government of Rwanda has developed and deployed an electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (eIDSR) working with Voxiva with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).
Objective:
(1) To describe the implementation of the electronic system for integrated disease surveillance in Rwanda.
(2) To present the sensitivity and specificity of the electronic reporting system to detect potential outbreaks
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Description
A syndromic surveillance system has been implemented at Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health in Kingston Ontario as part of a pilot project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care – Public Health Division. The information captured by the Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance-based syndromic surveillance system includes Febrile Respiratory Illness screening results (implemented since SARS) for Emergency Department (ED) visits and information detailing hospital admissions.
Objective
To use an electronic real-time ED monitoring tool to involve public health, acute care and laboratory stakeholders in an integrated alerting and response process for community-wide influenza.
Swaziland adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy in 2010 to strengthen Public Health Surveillance (PHS) that fulfills International Health Regulations (2005) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). This strategy allows the Ministry of Health (MoH), Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit (EDCU) to monitor, prevent and control priority diseases in the country. We used a health systems strengthening approach to pilot an intervention model for IDSR implementation at five hospitals in Swaziland over a pilot phase of three months.
Objective:
To strengthen public health surveillance and monitor implementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in the Kingdom of Swaziland.