People-centred surveillance: a narrative review of community-based surveillance among crisis-affected populations.

ABSTRACT: Outbreaks of disease in settings affected by crises grow rapidly due to late detection and weakened public health systems. Where surveillance is underfunctioning, community-based surveillance can contribute to rapid outbreak detection and response, a core capacity of the International Health Regulations. We reviewed articles describing the potential for community-based surveillance to detect diseases of epidemic potential, outbreaks, and mortality among populations affected by crises. Surveillance objectives have included the early warning of outbreaks, active case finding during outbreaks, case finding for eradication programmes, and mortality surveillance. Community-based surveillance can provide sensitive and timely detection, identify valid signals for diseases with salient symptoms, a

SUBMITTER: Ratnayake R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7542093 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature