Completeness of open access FluNet influenza surveillance data for Pan-America in 2005-2019.

ABSTRACT: For several decades, the World Health Organization has collected, maintained, and distributed invaluable country-specific disease surveillance data that allow experts to develop new analytical tools for disease tracking and forecasting. To capture the extent of available data within these sources, we proposed a completeness metric based on the effective time series length. Using FluNet records for 29 Pan-American countries from 2005 to 2019, we explored whether completeness was associated with health expenditure indicators adjusting for surveillance system heterogeneity. We observed steady improvements in completeness by 4.2-6.3% annually, especially after the A(H1N1)-2009 pandemic, when 24 countries reached > 95% completeness. Doubling in decadal health expenditure per capita was associat

SUBMITTER: Simpson RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7804328 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature