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Panel 2.2: Surveillance, Early Warning Alert, and Response: Communicable and Vector-Borne Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Collette Roure
Affiliation:
Adviser, Prime Minister's Office, Tsunami Relief Coordination Task Force, France
Asheena Khalakdina
Affiliation:
Epidemiologist, World Health Organization (WHO)/South East Asia Region
Kumnuan Ungchusak
Affiliation:
Director, Bureau of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Media Yulizar
Affiliation:
Communicable Disease Control Manager, Provincial Health Office, Aceh, Indonesia
P. Ravindran
Affiliation:
Director, Emergency Medical Relief, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India
John Watson
Affiliation:
Epidemiology Team Leader, World Health Organization (WHO)/Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Augusto Pinto
Affiliation:
Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, World Health Organization (WHO)/Headquarters

Abstract

This is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Surveillance, Early Warning Alert and Response at the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO)in Phuket, Thailand, 04–06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to the surveillance, early warning alert, and response to communicable and vector-borne diseases as pertaining to the responses to the damage created bythe Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) key questions; (2) needs assessment; (3) coordination(4) gap filling; and (5) capacity building. The key questions section is presented in six sub-sections: (1) communicable diseases; (2) early warning; (3) laboratory capacity and referral networking; (4) coordination of disease surveillance, early warning, and response; (5) health infrastructure rebuilding; and (6) using existing national surveillance plans toenhance disease surveillance and early warning systems.

Type
WHO Special Report: Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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