Software Tools to Facilitate Community-Based Surveillance: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Public health surveillance traditionally occurs at a health facility; however, there is growing concern that this provides only partial and untimely health information. Community-based surveillance (CBS) enables early warning and the mobilization of early intervention and response to disease outbreaks. CBS is a method of surveillance that can monitor a wide range of information directly from community members. CBS can be done using short message service, phone calls, paper forms, or a specialized software tool. No scoping review of the available software tools with the capability for CBS exists in the literature. This review aims to map software tools that can be used for CBS in both community health programs and emergency settings and demonstrate their use cases.

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SUBMITTER: Wallis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10615241 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature