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Assessment of the core and support functions of the integrated disease surveillance and response system in Zanzibar, Tanzania. [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2021
Abstract Background Disease surveillance is a cornerstone of outbreak detection and control. Evaluation of a disease surveillance system is important to ensure its performance over time. The aim of this study was to assess the performance of the core and support functions of the Zanzibar integrated disease surveillance ...
Saleh F, Kitau J, Konradsen F, Mboera LEG, Schiøler KL.   +4 more
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Cost analysis of an integrated disease surveillance and response system: case of Burkina Faso, Eritrea, and Mali [PDF]

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2009
Background Communicable diseases are the leading causes of illness, deaths, and disability in sub-Saharan Africa. To address these threats, countries within the World Health Organization (WHO) African region adopted a regional strategy called Integrated ...
Zana C Somda, Martin I Meltzer, Helen N Perry, Nancy E Messonnier, Usman Abdulmumini, Goitom Mebrahtu, Massambou Sacko, Kandioura Toure, Salimnta Ouedraogo Ki, Tuoyo Okorosobo, Wondimagegnehu Alemu, Idrissa Sow   +11 more
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Evaluation of integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR) and early warning and response network (EWARN) in South Sudan 2021. [PDF]

Pan Afr Med J, 2022
South Sudan has been implementing the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy since 2006, along with Early Warning and Alert Response and Network (EWARN). The IDSR/EWARN stakeholders commissioned an independent evaluation to establish performance at national, state, county, health facility, and community levels in the first half of
Rumunu J, Wamala JF, Sakaya R, Konga SB, Igale AL, Adut AA, Lonyik SK, Lasu RM, Kaya RD, Guracha G, Nsubuga P, Ndenzako F, Talisuna AO.   +12 more
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Assessment of the Integrated Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response System in Thamar Governorate, Yemen

Journal of High Institute of Public Health
Background: The Integrated Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) system facilitates detection, monitoring and the effective response to public health threats.
Basem F. Abdel-Aziz, Saddam A.H. Al-Nahari, Ali A. Al-Waleedi, Shymaa M. Elshoura   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The effect of training and provision of logistic support on disease surveillance and notification system in private health facilities in Enugu State, Nigeria

Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Rapid notification of infectious diseases is essential for prompt public health actions and monitoring disease trends at local, state and national levels.
Ntat Charles Ibiok, Elias Chikee Aniwada, Edmund Ndudi Ossai, Emmanuel Amechi Nwobi, Benjamin S C Uzochukwu   +4 more
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Evaluation of the electronic Early Warning and Response Network (EWARN) system in Somalia, 2017–2020

Conflict and Health, 2022
Background In 2008, Somalia introduced an electronic based Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) for real time detection and response to alerts of epidemic prone diseases in a country experiencing a complex humanitarian situation.
Mutaawe Lubogo, Mary Joan Karanja, Rennatus Mdodo, Sherein Elnossery, Ali Abdirahman Osman, Abdulkadir Abdi, Evans Buliva, Muhammad Tayyab, Omar Abdulle Omar, Mirza Mashrur Ahmed, Solomon Chane Abera, Abdinasir Abubakar, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik   +12 more
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Implementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in Swaziland [PDF]

Online J Public Health Inform, 2018
Objective: To strengthen public health surveillance and monitor implementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in the Kingdom of Swaziland.Introduction: Swaziland adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy in 2010 to strengthen Public Health Surveillance (PHS) that fulfills International Health Regulations (
Shongwe-Gama S, Maphosa T, Khumalo P, Lokotfwako V, Nhlabatsi N, Sahabo R, Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha H.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Evaluation of the integrated disease surveillance and response system for infectious diseases control in northern Ghana [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2015
El buen funcionamiento de los sistemas de vigilancia es crucial para la eficacia de los programas de control de enfermedades. La estrategia de Vigilancia y Respuesta Integradas a las Enfermedades (IDSR, por sus siglas en inglés) se desarrolló y adoptó en 1998 para África como un enfoque integral de salud pública y, posteriormente, Ghana adoptó las ...
Martin Nyaaba Adokiya, John Koku Awoonor‐Williams, Inuwa Barau, Claudia Beiersmann, Olaf Mueller   +4 more
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The implementation of integrated disease surveillance and response in Liberia after Ebola virus disease outbreak 2015-2017. [PDF]

Pan Afr Med J, 2019
Although Liberia adapted the integrated diseases surveillance and response (IDSR) in 2004 as a platform for implementation of International Health Regulation (IHR (2005)), IDSR was not actively implemented until 2015. Some innovations and best practices were observed during the implementation of IDSR in Liberia after Ebola virus disease outbreak.
Nagbe T, Naiene JD, Rude JM, Mahmoud N, Kromah M, Sesay J, Chukwudi OJ, Stephen M, Talisuna A, Yahaya AA, Rajatonirina S, Fallah M, Nyenswah T, Dahn B, Gasasira A, Fall IS.   +15 more
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Evaluation of public health surveillance systems in refugee settlements in Uganda, 2016–2019: lessons learned

Conflict and Health, 2022
Background Civil wars in the Great Lakes region resulted in massive displacement of people to neighboring countries including Uganda. With associated disease epidemics related to this conflict, a disease surveillance system was established aiming for ...
Alex Riolexus Ario, Emily Atuheire Barigye, Innocent Harbert Nkonwa, Jimmy Ogwal, Denis Nixon Opio, Lilian Bulage, Daniel Kadobera, Paul Edward Okello, Leocadia Warren Kwagonza, Susan Kizito, Benon Kwesiga, Julius Kasozi   +11 more
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