Low-Cost National Media-Based Surveillance System for Public Health Events, Bangladesh

Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Apr;22(4):720-2. doi: 10.3201/eid2204.150330.

Abstract

We assessed a media-based public health surveillance system in Bangladesh during 2010-2011. The system is a highly effective, low-cost, locally appropriate, and sustainable outbreak detection tool that could be used in other low-income, resource-poor settings to meet the capacity for surveillance outlined in the International Health Regulations 2005.

Keywords: Bangladesh; disease outbreaks; infectious diseases; newspapers; public health; surveillance; television.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Anthrax / diagnosis
  • Anthrax / epidemiology
  • Bangladesh / epidemiology
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis*
  • Diarrhea / diagnosis
  • Diarrhea / epidemiology
  • Disease Notification / economics*
  • Disease Notification / statistics & numerical data
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
  • Foodborne Diseases / diagnosis
  • Foodborne Diseases / epidemiology
  • Global Health / economics
  • Humans
  • International Cooperation
  • Public Health / economics*
  • Public Health / methods
  • Public Health Surveillance / methods*
  • Rabies / diagnosis
  • Rabies / epidemiology