Vector-borne disease intelligence: Strategies to deal with disease burden and threats

Vector-borne disease intelligence: Strategies to deal with disease burden and threats

Blog Article

Owing to the complex nature of vector-borne diseases, Memory Cards whereby monitoring of human case patients does not suffice, public health authorities experience challenges in surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases.Knowledge on the presence and distribution of vectors and the pathogens they transmit is vital to a risk assessment process to permit effective early warning, surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases.Upon accepting this reality, public health authorities face the phenomenon of an exponential rise in the number of possible surveillance targets and how to decide which are essential.Here,.we propose a comprehensive approach that integrates three surveillance strategies: population-based surveillance, disease-based surveillance and context-based surveillance for EU member states copyright to tailor the best surveillance strategy for control of vector-borne diseases in their geographic region.

By classifying the surveillance structure into 5 different contexts, we hope to provide guidance in optimizing surveillance efforts.Contextual surveillance strategies for vector-borne diseases entail combining organization and data collection approaches that result in disease intelligence rather than a preset static structure.