This document discusses disease surveillance networks and provides examples. It begins by defining key concepts like surveillance, emerging diseases, and networks. It then provides examples of successful surveillance networks, including SISEA/Pasteur in Southeast Asia, the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance network, and tuberculosis surveillance. These networks improved disease detection and response through established nodes, standardized reporting procedures, and capacity building. The document concludes that interconnected surveillance networks can enhance sensitivity and specificity of disease detection compared to isolated efforts.
The document describes the steps taken to investigate an outbreak of jaundice in Rohtak, India. People first noticed an unusual occurrence of jaundice cases that had not been seen in over 10 years. A house-to-house survey confirmed it was an outbreak. Laboratory tests of water samples found one-third failed orthotolidine tests and 3 of 5 samples had unsafe coliform counts. Additional observations revealed poor sanitation practices in the community that could have contributed to the spread of the disease.
This document discusses the One Health approach, which recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. It notes that zoonotic diseases pose a large disease burden, especially in developing countries, and factors like human encroachment on wildlife habitats, intensive farming, and increased travel and trade have contributed to the emergence and spread of diseases. The One Health approach aims to promote cross-sectoral collaboration between medical, veterinary, and environmental professionals to achieve optimal health outcomes. Key organizations promoting One Health include WHO, FAO, OIE, and CDC. While India has started some One Health initiatives, more coordination is still needed between its medical and veterinary colleges to address zoonotic threats.
One Health – an interdisciplinary approach in combating emerging diseasesILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Delia Grace and Jakob Zinsstag at the International Symposium of Health Sciences (iSIHAT 2013), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-21 August 2013.
Environmental change and vector borne diseaseNik Ronaidi
This document discusses how environmental change can impact vector-borne diseases. It identifies several factors of global change like climate change, urbanization, and land use that can influence disease transmission by affecting vectors, pathogens, or human exposure and sensitivity. Changes in temperature and precipitation from climate change can expand vector habitat and accelerate pathogen development. The document also examines how these global changes have impacted diseases like dengue and filariasis in Malaysia through influences on vector ecology and human activities. Effective adaptation requires assessing a population's vulnerability, exposure, and sensitivity to design vector control and other management options.
This document discusses hospital outbreak investigations. It defines endemic and epidemic infections in hospitals. Common source and propagated epidemics are described. Steps in investigating outbreaks in hospitals and communities are provided, including forming an investigation team, developing a case definition, conducting epidemiological and laboratory analyses. The goals of outbreak investigations are outlined. Methods for confirming and controlling outbreaks are discussed.
One-Health encompasses the interconnection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health. It recognizes that the health of each component is dependent on the others. The emergence of concepts like antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic diseases demonstrate this interdependence. Universities around the world, including over two dozen globally, offer courses in One Health at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. These courses aim to assess public health threats by researching disease transmission among living things and their environments. The goal is to provide a foundation for understanding diseases in the context of sustainable systems and global health. Tools used include surveillance, epidemiology, and analysis of large electronic health datasets. However, One Health is still poorly implemented and understood in
This document discusses healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and outbreak investigations. It defines key terms like clusters, outbreaks, and epidemics. It also outlines the reasons to investigate outbreaks, how to recognize them, and the goals and steps of investigations. The steps include defining cases, identifying cases, analyzing person, place and time factors, developing and evaluating hypotheses, implementing controls, and communicating findings. The overall purpose is to identify the cause of the outbreak and implement measures to control it.
The document describes the steps taken to investigate an outbreak of jaundice in Rohtak, India. People first noticed an unusual occurrence of jaundice cases that had not been seen in over 10 years. A house-to-house survey confirmed it was an outbreak. Laboratory tests of water samples found one-third failed orthotolidine tests and 3 of 5 samples had unsafe coliform counts. Additional observations revealed poor sanitation practices in the community that could have contributed to the spread of the disease.
This document discusses the One Health approach, which recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. It notes that zoonotic diseases pose a large disease burden, especially in developing countries, and factors like human encroachment on wildlife habitats, intensive farming, and increased travel and trade have contributed to the emergence and spread of diseases. The One Health approach aims to promote cross-sectoral collaboration between medical, veterinary, and environmental professionals to achieve optimal health outcomes. Key organizations promoting One Health include WHO, FAO, OIE, and CDC. While India has started some One Health initiatives, more coordination is still needed between its medical and veterinary colleges to address zoonotic threats.
One Health – an interdisciplinary approach in combating emerging diseasesILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Delia Grace and Jakob Zinsstag at the International Symposium of Health Sciences (iSIHAT 2013), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-21 August 2013.
Environmental change and vector borne diseaseNik Ronaidi
This document discusses how environmental change can impact vector-borne diseases. It identifies several factors of global change like climate change, urbanization, and land use that can influence disease transmission by affecting vectors, pathogens, or human exposure and sensitivity. Changes in temperature and precipitation from climate change can expand vector habitat and accelerate pathogen development. The document also examines how these global changes have impacted diseases like dengue and filariasis in Malaysia through influences on vector ecology and human activities. Effective adaptation requires assessing a population's vulnerability, exposure, and sensitivity to design vector control and other management options.
This document discusses hospital outbreak investigations. It defines endemic and epidemic infections in hospitals. Common source and propagated epidemics are described. Steps in investigating outbreaks in hospitals and communities are provided, including forming an investigation team, developing a case definition, conducting epidemiological and laboratory analyses. The goals of outbreak investigations are outlined. Methods for confirming and controlling outbreaks are discussed.
One-Health encompasses the interconnection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health. It recognizes that the health of each component is dependent on the others. The emergence of concepts like antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic diseases demonstrate this interdependence. Universities around the world, including over two dozen globally, offer courses in One Health at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. These courses aim to assess public health threats by researching disease transmission among living things and their environments. The goal is to provide a foundation for understanding diseases in the context of sustainable systems and global health. Tools used include surveillance, epidemiology, and analysis of large electronic health datasets. However, One Health is still poorly implemented and understood in
This document discusses healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and outbreak investigations. It defines key terms like clusters, outbreaks, and epidemics. It also outlines the reasons to investigate outbreaks, how to recognize them, and the goals and steps of investigations. The steps include defining cases, identifying cases, analyzing person, place and time factors, developing and evaluating hypotheses, implementing controls, and communicating findings. The overall purpose is to identify the cause of the outbreak and implement measures to control it.
The 10-step approach to outbreak investigations involves:
1) Identifying an investigation team and resources.
2) Establishing the existence of an outbreak.
3) Verifying the diagnosis, constructing a case definition, and finding cases systematically.
Descriptive epidemiology is then used to develop hypotheses, which are evaluated through additional studies if needed, before implementing control measures, communicating findings, and maintaining surveillance to confirm the outbreak has ended. Being systematic and following these steps is key to determining the source and controlling outbreaks.
The document summarizes a term paper on public health surveillance in Nepal. It discusses the objectives, methodology, findings and conclusions of the paper. The key points are: public health surveillance involves ongoing collection and analysis of health data to guide public health practice; Nepal has integrated disease surveillance within its health management information system; and the country was commended for its efficient AFP surveillance and polio eradication efforts while still needing to address potential wild poliovirus circulation.
1) The document discusses several zoonotic diseases including West Nile virus, rabies, and brucellosis. It describes the pathogens, transmission cycles between animals and humans, clinical manifestations in humans, and national surveillance efforts.
2) For diseases like rabies and brucellosis, the national surveillance involves mandatory reporting of human cases, monitoring of infected animals, and collaboration between human and veterinary agencies.
3) One health approaches discussed include integrating epidemiological data between human and veterinary fields to more rapidly detect and respond to zoonotic outbreaks.
This document discusses disease surveillance and the concept of a public health ecosystem. It describes key aspects of public health including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease prevention, and controlling infectious diseases. Disease surveillance is highlighted as a core public health function. An ideal public health information ecosystem is proposed, with different components like surveillance, immunization, and environmental health. The document explores what disease surveillance entails and presents the idea of a disease surveillance ecosystem that brings together different stakeholders like epidemiologists, nurses, and laboratory staff. It addresses current gaps and ways to prioritize and fill them. Finally, it considers exercises around building an ideal disease surveillance team and responding to syndromic surveillance alerts.
History Of Epidemiology for Graduate and Postgraduate studentsTauseef Jawaid
This document provides a summary of the history of epidemiology from ancient times to the present. It describes key figures and discoveries such as Hippocrates' association of disease with environment, Jenner's pioneering of vaccination, Snow's mapping of a cholera outbreak to a contaminated well. More recent developments discussed include the founding of the U.S. Public Health Service, landmark studies like the Tuskegee syphilis study, and future challenges of globalization and overcrowding facilitating disease spread.
Module 1.1 An overview of emerging and re emerging infectious diseasesAdaora Anyichie - Odis
This module helps to understand the global trends of emerging & re-emerging infections and chronic diseases, identify the threats of diseases and develop desirable attitude and skill in planning to go for new treatment regimens and public health programs that substantially reduce and even prevent the spread of infections and promotion of public health
This document discusses the differences between association and causation. Association is when two variables occur together more often than chance, while causation means one variable directly causes the other. There are three types of associations - spurious associations which are not real, indirect associations where a third factor links two variables, and direct associations where one variable directly causes the other in either a one-to-one or multifactorial relationship. The Bradford Hill criteria are discussed as a way to judge causality, considering factors like temporal relationship, strength of association, specificity, consistency, and biological plausibility.
Descriptive epidemiological studies are used to:
1. Document the distribution and determinants of health-related events in populations without attempting to infer causality.
2. Describe patterns of disease by person, place, and time to identify potential risk factors and generate hypotheses.
3. Provide baseline data on diseases, health conditions, and their risk factors that can be used to plan interventions and evaluate control programs.
This document discusses several emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases including SARS, MERS, Nipah virus, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Kyasanur forest disease. It provides details on the causative agents, modes of transmission, symptoms, treatment and prevention measures for each disease. It also discusses definitions of emerging and re-emerging diseases and factors responsible for their emergence or re-emergence such as rapid population growth, international travel, antibiotic resistance.
Epidemiology is the study of disease patterns in populations and the factors influencing these patterns. Some key points:
- Epidemiology aims to determine disease origins, investigate control, and understand ecology and impacts on populations.
- Descriptive epidemiology characterizes disease distribution, who is affected, when and where. Analytic epidemiology examines why through comparing groups and potential risk factors.
- Studies include experimental, cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort designs to analyze associations between exposures and outcomes.
- Methods include surveys, monitoring, surveillance and studying sentinel populations to track disease occurrence and changes over time.
Presented by Hung Nguyen-Viet and Jakob Zinsstag at a technical workshop of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) regional initiative on One Health, Bangkok, Thailand, 11–13 October 2017.
Function , Core competencies and scope of public healthsirjana Tiwari
The document discusses the core competencies and scope of public health. It outlines seven core competencies - biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health policy and management, social and behavioral sciences, critical thinking, and problem solving. It also discusses emerging competencies like evidence-based approaches, public health systems, planning/management, policy, leadership, communication, and inter-professional practice. Additionally, the document outlines the broad scope of public health, covering areas like infectious and chronic disease prevention, mental health, bioterrorism, demography, environmental health, health financing, and addressing social determinants of health.
An outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia bloodstream infections occurred among newborns in the NICU, with 16 of 59 newborns infected over a month. This was a significant increase over the unit's typical infection rate of 2% per month. The ICC nurse investigated by learning about B. cepacia, verifying the diagnoses, establishing the outbreak, and defining cases. Preliminary findings identified a cluster of infections in October, with all blood cultures from within 24 hours of birth testing positive for B. cepacia. The source and mode of transmission were still unknown.
This document provides an overview of infectious disease epidemiology. It begins with a brief history of some major infectious disease outbreaks and their impacts. It then discusses concepts and definitions relevant to infectious disease epidemiology, including reservoirs, modes of transmission, epidemiological triad, and terminology. The document outlines the importance of studying infectious disease epidemiology and highlights current challenges like antimicrobial resistance and emerging/re-emerging pathogens. It also summarizes successes in disease eradication/elimination and the ongoing global burden of infectious diseases.
this presentation takes you through the concept of association observed between variables in a study and how could it become a causative association in step-wise manner.Exemplify using Bradford hill criteria. slides after references are extra slides not covered in the presentation.
Lean Alfred B. Santos has over 4 years of experience in communications, reporting, and research roles focused on international development, trade, and governance. He currently works as a Communications Consultant for the Asian Development Bank and as a freelance proofreader for Charlton Media Group. His background also includes positions as an International Development Reporter for Devex, Contributor for Forbes Philippines, and Business Reporter and Researcher for Rappler.
This document discusses ResearchGate, an online network for researchers. It describes how ResearchGate was founded, provides examples of research topics covered on the site, and shows graphs of how the "Find Researchers" function is used across disciplines. The document also shares stories from researchers who have used ResearchGate to find collaborators with similar interests and from the CEO of an organization that partners with ResearchGate to equip overseas labs. It concludes that ResearchGate aims to be a global network that is revolutionizing the scientific world through improved access to information and ability to connect with other researchers.
The 10-step approach to outbreak investigations involves:
1) Identifying an investigation team and resources.
2) Establishing the existence of an outbreak.
3) Verifying the diagnosis, constructing a case definition, and finding cases systematically.
Descriptive epidemiology is then used to develop hypotheses, which are evaluated through additional studies if needed, before implementing control measures, communicating findings, and maintaining surveillance to confirm the outbreak has ended. Being systematic and following these steps is key to determining the source and controlling outbreaks.
The document summarizes a term paper on public health surveillance in Nepal. It discusses the objectives, methodology, findings and conclusions of the paper. The key points are: public health surveillance involves ongoing collection and analysis of health data to guide public health practice; Nepal has integrated disease surveillance within its health management information system; and the country was commended for its efficient AFP surveillance and polio eradication efforts while still needing to address potential wild poliovirus circulation.
1) The document discusses several zoonotic diseases including West Nile virus, rabies, and brucellosis. It describes the pathogens, transmission cycles between animals and humans, clinical manifestations in humans, and national surveillance efforts.
2) For diseases like rabies and brucellosis, the national surveillance involves mandatory reporting of human cases, monitoring of infected animals, and collaboration between human and veterinary agencies.
3) One health approaches discussed include integrating epidemiological data between human and veterinary fields to more rapidly detect and respond to zoonotic outbreaks.
This document discusses disease surveillance and the concept of a public health ecosystem. It describes key aspects of public health including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease prevention, and controlling infectious diseases. Disease surveillance is highlighted as a core public health function. An ideal public health information ecosystem is proposed, with different components like surveillance, immunization, and environmental health. The document explores what disease surveillance entails and presents the idea of a disease surveillance ecosystem that brings together different stakeholders like epidemiologists, nurses, and laboratory staff. It addresses current gaps and ways to prioritize and fill them. Finally, it considers exercises around building an ideal disease surveillance team and responding to syndromic surveillance alerts.
History Of Epidemiology for Graduate and Postgraduate studentsTauseef Jawaid
This document provides a summary of the history of epidemiology from ancient times to the present. It describes key figures and discoveries such as Hippocrates' association of disease with environment, Jenner's pioneering of vaccination, Snow's mapping of a cholera outbreak to a contaminated well. More recent developments discussed include the founding of the U.S. Public Health Service, landmark studies like the Tuskegee syphilis study, and future challenges of globalization and overcrowding facilitating disease spread.
Module 1.1 An overview of emerging and re emerging infectious diseasesAdaora Anyichie - Odis
This module helps to understand the global trends of emerging & re-emerging infections and chronic diseases, identify the threats of diseases and develop desirable attitude and skill in planning to go for new treatment regimens and public health programs that substantially reduce and even prevent the spread of infections and promotion of public health
This document discusses the differences between association and causation. Association is when two variables occur together more often than chance, while causation means one variable directly causes the other. There are three types of associations - spurious associations which are not real, indirect associations where a third factor links two variables, and direct associations where one variable directly causes the other in either a one-to-one or multifactorial relationship. The Bradford Hill criteria are discussed as a way to judge causality, considering factors like temporal relationship, strength of association, specificity, consistency, and biological plausibility.
Descriptive epidemiological studies are used to:
1. Document the distribution and determinants of health-related events in populations without attempting to infer causality.
2. Describe patterns of disease by person, place, and time to identify potential risk factors and generate hypotheses.
3. Provide baseline data on diseases, health conditions, and their risk factors that can be used to plan interventions and evaluate control programs.
This document discusses several emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases including SARS, MERS, Nipah virus, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Kyasanur forest disease. It provides details on the causative agents, modes of transmission, symptoms, treatment and prevention measures for each disease. It also discusses definitions of emerging and re-emerging diseases and factors responsible for their emergence or re-emergence such as rapid population growth, international travel, antibiotic resistance.
Epidemiology is the study of disease patterns in populations and the factors influencing these patterns. Some key points:
- Epidemiology aims to determine disease origins, investigate control, and understand ecology and impacts on populations.
- Descriptive epidemiology characterizes disease distribution, who is affected, when and where. Analytic epidemiology examines why through comparing groups and potential risk factors.
- Studies include experimental, cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort designs to analyze associations between exposures and outcomes.
- Methods include surveys, monitoring, surveillance and studying sentinel populations to track disease occurrence and changes over time.
Presented by Hung Nguyen-Viet and Jakob Zinsstag at a technical workshop of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) regional initiative on One Health, Bangkok, Thailand, 11–13 October 2017.
Function , Core competencies and scope of public healthsirjana Tiwari
The document discusses the core competencies and scope of public health. It outlines seven core competencies - biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health policy and management, social and behavioral sciences, critical thinking, and problem solving. It also discusses emerging competencies like evidence-based approaches, public health systems, planning/management, policy, leadership, communication, and inter-professional practice. Additionally, the document outlines the broad scope of public health, covering areas like infectious and chronic disease prevention, mental health, bioterrorism, demography, environmental health, health financing, and addressing social determinants of health.
An outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia bloodstream infections occurred among newborns in the NICU, with 16 of 59 newborns infected over a month. This was a significant increase over the unit's typical infection rate of 2% per month. The ICC nurse investigated by learning about B. cepacia, verifying the diagnoses, establishing the outbreak, and defining cases. Preliminary findings identified a cluster of infections in October, with all blood cultures from within 24 hours of birth testing positive for B. cepacia. The source and mode of transmission were still unknown.
This document provides an overview of infectious disease epidemiology. It begins with a brief history of some major infectious disease outbreaks and their impacts. It then discusses concepts and definitions relevant to infectious disease epidemiology, including reservoirs, modes of transmission, epidemiological triad, and terminology. The document outlines the importance of studying infectious disease epidemiology and highlights current challenges like antimicrobial resistance and emerging/re-emerging pathogens. It also summarizes successes in disease eradication/elimination and the ongoing global burden of infectious diseases.
this presentation takes you through the concept of association observed between variables in a study and how could it become a causative association in step-wise manner.Exemplify using Bradford hill criteria. slides after references are extra slides not covered in the presentation.
Lean Alfred B. Santos has over 4 years of experience in communications, reporting, and research roles focused on international development, trade, and governance. He currently works as a Communications Consultant for the Asian Development Bank and as a freelance proofreader for Charlton Media Group. His background also includes positions as an International Development Reporter for Devex, Contributor for Forbes Philippines, and Business Reporter and Researcher for Rappler.
This document discusses ResearchGate, an online network for researchers. It describes how ResearchGate was founded, provides examples of research topics covered on the site, and shows graphs of how the "Find Researchers" function is used across disciplines. The document also shares stories from researchers who have used ResearchGate to find collaborators with similar interests and from the CEO of an organization that partners with ResearchGate to equip overseas labs. It concludes that ResearchGate aims to be a global network that is revolutionizing the scientific world through improved access to information and ability to connect with other researchers.
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(1) Susan Prince outlines a 4-step process for putting marketing on autopilot using technology: (1) having content to share, (2) scheduling posts in advance, (3) choosing tools like Hootsuite and Constant Contact, and (4) loading content to publish automatically.
(2) She recommends automating social media, blog posts, and email campaigns using scheduling tools to publish without needing to sit at a computer.
(3) Putting marketing on autopilot still requires regular evaluation and live engagement, but can generate business from existing customers through strengthened relationships and referrals.
Twitter is a social media platform that allows users to post short messages called tweets. Tweets can be up to 140 characters and are displayed on a user's profile page. Users can follow other users to see their tweets in their home feed. Users can reply to or mention other users by including the @ symbol followed by their username. They can also retweet others' tweets by including RT at the beginning. Direct messages allow for private communication between users who follow each other. Users can customize their profile and see trending topics on Twitter.
Lisa took a trip around Arizona during the summer of 2009, visiting various towns and branches. She created creative representations of the places that did not send her photos. Her representations poked fun at the towns in a lighthearted way. Lisa thanked all the branches for helping her have a memorable summer trip around Arizona.
The document summarizes the "Surveillance and Investigation of Epidemic Situations in Southeast Asia" (SISEA) project. The key points are:
1) SISEA aims to improve detection and response to epidemics in Southeast Asia by strengthening reference laboratories, surveillance networks, and regional coordination between 2006-2010.
2) Main outcomes include improving surveillance of respiratory infections and building laboratory and public health capacities in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos through equipment, training, and sentinel site networks.
3) Activities in each country strengthened diagnostic testing, surveillance systems, and partnerships to detect emerging infectious diseases like influenza, Japanese encephalitis, and melioidosis.
Eric Zahra is a 16 year old who enjoys football, the color red, Holden cars, and the number 5. His hero is Lebron James and while his PowerPoint skills are average, he has used presentations successfully to complete big school assessments.
steps in epidemic investigation
Prepare for field work
Confirm the existence of an outbreak
Verify the diagnosis and determine the etiology of the disease.
Define the population at risk
Develop case definition, start case finding, and collect information on the cases(after choosing study design)
Describe person, place and time (by questionnaire)
Evaluation of ecological factors
Formulate several possible hypothesis hypotheses.
Test hypotheses using analytical study
Refine hypotheses and carry out additional studies
Draw conclusions to explain the causes or determinants of outbreak based on clinical, laboratory, epidemiological & environmental evidence
Report and recommend appropriate control measures to concerned authorities at the local/national, and if appropriate at international levels
Communication of the findings
Follow up of the recommendation to assure implementation of control measures
This document provides an overview of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and surveillance. It defines HAIs as infections that patients acquire during the course of receiving treatment for other conditions within healthcare facilities. Surveillance involves the ongoing and systematic collection and analysis of HAI data to identify infection patterns and risks, inform healthcare personnel, and evaluate prevention efforts. The key components of surveillance include standardized definitions, concurrent data collection from patient records and labs, managing data for analysis, calculating infection rates, interpreting trends, and validating surveillance methods.
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RespiDx: The Respimometer Diagnostic Aid for Childhood PneumoniaLeith Greenslade
Learn more about an innovative new tool that assesses respiration rate and temperature in small children to aid in the diagnosis of pneumonia in low resource settings where access to x-rays is severely limited. The recipient of grants from Grand Challenges Israel and USAID's Development Innovation Ventures, RespiDx is now testing the effectiveness of the Respimometer in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This document outlines the educational objectives and content for a lecture on epidemiology. The objectives are to define key epidemiology terms, discuss the functions and modes of epidemiologic investigation, and identify sources of data and potential sources of error. The content includes definitions of epidemiology and related terms, the main functions of epidemiology, descriptive and analytic modes of investigation, how surveillance system data is applied through outbreak investigation, and sources of epidemiological data and potential sources of error.
This document discusses descriptive and cross-sectional studies. It outlines the steps in the scientific method and differentiates between observational and experimental studies. Descriptive studies examine health status based on routine data to describe disease patterns without testing hypotheses. Cross-sectional studies can test hypotheses by including study and control groups to examine prevalence and potential causative factors. The document discusses the types, uses, advantages, and disadvantages of descriptive and cross-sectional studies, and outlines the steps to carry out a cross-sectional study.
The document summarizes Nepal's Avian Influenza Control Project. It outlines the risks of avian influenza in Nepal, including migratory bird flyways and common farming/slaughtering practices. The project's goals are to reduce human infection risk and mitigate health/socioeconomic impacts of an influenza pandemic. Key components include surveillance, quarantine, laboratory capacity building, and communication strategies. An overview of achievements in fiscal year 2065/66 includes policy updates, surveillance/laboratory activities, prevention/containment measures, and health system preparedness in response to A(H1N1)2009 cases.
Challenges in healthcare and infection controlLee Oi Wah
The document discusses various challenges in healthcare-associated infection control and prevention. It outlines key challenges like multidrug-resistant organisms, changing healthcare settings, and emerging diseases. It also summarizes strategies like surveillance, standard and transmission-based precautions, and the roles of infection control personnel in outbreak prevention and management. Effective infection control requires a multifaceted approach including education, environmental controls, and collaboration across the healthcare system.
This document provides an overview of public health surveillance. It defines surveillance as the ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data to inform public health programs and actions. The document outlines the historical origins of surveillance dating back to ancient Greece. It describes various types of surveillance including community-level surveillance, routine reporting systems, active and passive surveillance, sentinel surveillance, and surveys. It also discusses the integrated disease surveillance program in India and how it aims to strengthen surveillance systems at the state and district levels.
This document provides an overview of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak that began in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It describes the clinical presentation and management of 2019-nCoV, compares it to other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS, and outlines current WHO guidance on case definitions, investigations and infection control.
This document discusses sepsis, including definitions, causes, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. It defines sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. Mortality from sepsis is high and increasing. Common causes are bacterial and fungal infections. The pathophysiology involves an excessive host immune response. Diagnosis requires identifying an infection and assessing for organ dysfunction. Management involves early antibiotic treatment, fluid resuscitation, vasopressor support if needed, and treating any infection source. Performance improvement efforts focusing on timely treatment can improve outcomes.
Epidemic Alert System: A Web-based Grassroots ModelIJECEIAES
This document summarizes research on web-based epidemic alert systems. It discusses how most current systems analyze large amounts of unstructured data from various online sources using complex algorithms, which can generate imprecise results given the lack of standards. The document then proposes a new grassroots web-based system that collects structured data directly from primary health centers, hospitals, and laboratories. This traditional approach uses threshold values based on percentiles to determine when an epidemic is triggered. If adopted, it could help standardize web-based disease surveillance.
The document summarizes the key steps in investigating an epidemic:
1) Verify the diagnosis and confirm the existence of an epidemic by comparing to previous years.
2) Define the population at risk by obtaining maps, counting population size, and initial line-listing of cases.
3) Conduct a rapid search for all cases through medical surveys, case sheets collecting details of identified cases, and searching for additional cases.
4) Analyze the collected data to understand patterns in time, place and person which can reveal the source and spread of disease. Formulate and test hypotheses based on this analysis.
Participatory epidemiology in animal and human healthILRI
Hendrickx, S. and Pissang, C. 2010. Participatory epidemiology in animal and human health. Paper presented at a symposium on intersectoral collaboration between the medical and veterinary professions in low-resource societies, "Where medics and vets join forces”, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, 5 November 2010.
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TB in the workplace and beyond - Contribution of Occupational Health Services...Jean Jacques Bernatas
TB remains a global health problem, infecting over 10 million people annually. Workplaces can increase risk of TB infection and transmission due to factors like overcrowding and poor ventilation. Occupational health services can play an important role in TB elimination by implementing screening, facilitating access to diagnosis and treatment, and providing support to affected workers. The level of workplace contribution depends on TB burden - in high burden settings, intensified case detection is key, while in low burden settings, detecting latent TB through screening is important. A "TB-proof workplace" implements hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk management strategies to curb TB transmission and support workers.
New faces of tuberculosis: new chellenges requiring new solutionsJean Jacques Bernatas
TB reflects poverty, and while it accompanies Humankind for 70,000 years, this disease presents new faces for which new solutions must be implemented to move towards TB elimination by 2030. Finally a better coordination between all stakeholders is instrumental for winning this fight.
La coopération internationale avec les pays en développement dans le domaine ...Jean Jacques Bernatas
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This document discusses making hospitals more environmentally sustainable. It notes that hospitals are heavy energy consumers, produce large amounts of waste, and use toxic substances. Going green can improve health outcomes by reducing pollution and accidents while cutting costs. The document outlines a conceptual framework for sustainable healthcare that includes eco-friendly construction, energy/water savings, reducing pollution emissions, sustainable purchasing, and waste sorting/recycling. It stresses the importance of prevention and addressing environmental health risks, and notes the poor are most impacted so regulations and financing need to support sustainable improvements in all facilities.
A Humanist perspective on Higher Learning collaboration between South-East As...Jean Jacques Bernatas
This presentation is based on a personal professional experience in SEA as a Medical Doctor, holding various positions in various organizations, including private sector. None of the views exposed will reflect the official positions of these organizations. Looking backward, I think I have got the necessary distance to get insights on how this collaboration between SEA and Europe has the potential power to boost higher learning in both of these parts of the world, to the benefit of all, taking the example of the higher learning in Health. I will first expose few case studies in SEA countries, about networks and organizations involved in human development, namely the ADB and the ASEAN. I will further provide personal comments on the shift of paradigm, in successful higher learning cooperation between SEA and Europe, and on how a fruitful future could be shaped together under a humanist perspective.
Antimicrobial resistance as an emerging food-borne infectious diseaseJean Jacques Bernatas
This document summarizes the rise of antimicrobial resistance as a growing public health issue linked to overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. It discusses how non-therapeutic use of antibiotics as growth promoters in farm animals has led to widespread resistance in bacteria. Studies show resistant bacteria can spread between animals on a farm and from animals to nearby humans and environment even without antibiotic use. The overuse of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture has accelerated resistance by placing intense selective pressure on bacteria. Widespread antibiotic resistance now compromises treatment of bacterial infections in humans. Solutions proposed include restricting non-therapeutic antibiotic use in animals and more prudent antibiotic prescribing and use by medical professionals and consumers.
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Surveillance of emerging diseases and networks.
1. Surveillance of emerging
diseases and networks: “the
whole is (still) more than its part”
Dr Jean-Jacques BERNATAS, MD (Montpellier), MSc
(DEA Paris 6)
Public Health Specialist
Senior medical advisor, International SOS
Jakarta, Indonesia - 17th December 2010 - Universitas Indonesia, Center for
Research and Integrated Development Tropical Health and Infectious Diseases
3. Introduction -1
Health surveillance is not a new deal:
14th century: Republic of Venice, Italy. Surveillance of
bubonic plague on ships before disembarkation
1878, USA: congress authorized Public Health
Services to collect data for detecting “pestilential
diseases” and undertake quarantine measures
Worldwide smallpox eradication in the 1970’s
succeeded because of an active surveillance of the
new cases
1980’s: introduction of computers improved data
aggregation and analysis
1990’s to 2000’s web revolution
4. Introduction -2
SARS epidemic in 2003 demonstrated the efficiency of a
global surveillance network: GOARN/WHO (created in
2000), and also our global fragility facing new pathogens
Core of the IHR 2005 and PHEIC
At the national level: US-CDC (USA), InVS (France), …
At regional level: ECDC (Europe), MDBS (Mekong
Region), …
5. Health-related Events
under Surveillance
Detection Decision
Notification Action
International Health Regulations (IHR)
2005 decision
instrument (simplified from annex 2 of
IHR).
Introduction -3
7. Definitions and concepts: Surveillance
(1)
Operational concept: “… process that is used to collect,
manage, analyze, interpret and report information about the status of
specific diseases or their antecedents in a specific population “ (J. W.
Buehler in “Modern Epidemiology”, Rothman &al.)
Objectives:
Descriptive epidemiology of health
problems TIME-PLACE-PERSONS
Monitoring, planning PH interventions:
Evaluation
Education and policy
(Research?): they nourish each other
8. Definitions and concepts: Surveillance
(2)
Attributes of surveillance (US CDC, 2001):
Timeliness: depends on the objective of the system. TB:
quarterly reports; Influenza: weekly reports; Ebola or other
hemorrhagic fever: hours.
Sensitivity: ability to detect an event at interest
Predictive value: are reported cases really cases? Does it
measure what it aims to measure.
Representativeness: /target population.
Data quality: accuracy, completeness.
Simplicity: time, money wasting; error risk mitigation.
Flexibility: adaptation to needs and circumstances.
Acceptability: willing to participate, motivation, perreniality
9. Definitions and concepts:
Emerging disease
Emergence of a new human pathogen:
Emergence of human pathogenicity in
commensal human species (S. Aureus
MRSA)
Interspecies transfer from animals to human:
A(H1N1)so, A(H5N1), HIV, SARS-CoronaV
Presence of a known human pathogen in new
areas (West-Nile in NYC in 1999 then in all US;
chikungunya in Indian ocean) or dramatic and
sudden extension of pre existing pathogen (DF in
South-East Asia, )
Emergence of knowledge: identification of a new
pathogen in specific human diseases (HCV in
Egypt, HHV8 and Kaposi sarcoma in Africa):
1918 “Spanish flu”
10. Definitions and concepts:
Emerging disease
Human-animal contacts
Virus-to-human adaptation: influenza
viruses
Virus-to-vector adaptation: chikungunya
(Reunion Island, 2005: Aedes
aegyptiAedes albopictus)
Climate change
Movements of population: short-term
(travel) vs. long-term (migration)
perspectives
Density of population, both human and
animal (animal husbandry)
Weiss RA, Nature Medicine, 2004
11. Definitions and concepts:
Network (“jaringan”?)
Nodes and vertices (vertex/vertices):
Topology: description of the relations between
nodes
Other properties: connectivity, directed vs. non
directed, eccentricity, radius, diameter, coloring
graph
Why?!
12. Definitions and concepts:
Network (“jaringan”?) -2
Method for modeling infectious diseases based on
contacts patterns. (How a rumor spread all over
the world or the “Facebook modeling” …)
Fraser, PNAS, 2004
(Christian, CID, 2004)
Stochastic models in opposition with
deterministic models (famous “R0, S/I/R and
differential equations)
13. Definitions and concepts:
System theory
Interacting entities
Primary interactions: positive and negative
feedback
Emerging properties and science of
complexity (Ilya Prigogine).
Broader framework to conceptualize the
interactions in all organized systems,
including biological and epidemiological ones
Distributed systems vs. centralized systems
15. Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -1
Objective: to contribute to the improvement of the detection and handling of
epidemic situations in the region, with 3 components:
Strengthen national reference laboratories
Strengthen epidemic detection
Strengthen outbreak response capacities
at national and regional levels, in collaboration with WHO
Nodes: healthcare facilities in Vietnam, Laos, China and Cambodia among
Pasteur Institutes International Network in South-East Asia; national health
authorities
Vertices: monthly reports to national health authorities, and regular
workshops.
Findings:
Knowledge of respiratory viruses pattern circulation in SEA,
Emergence of knowledge: meiloidiosis in Cambodia,
Alert and disease control: japanese encephalitis in South Vietnam,
Capacity building and strengthening of national surveillance
institution: skills and procedures
16. 16
Network .... and sub-network
International Pasteur Institutes Network – 32 members on 5 continents
Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -2 NODES
= MODEL
17. 17
Network of laboratories & hospital-based sentinel sites
IPS
- pediatric hospital of Nanxiang
- Guangxi CDCNIHE
- Provincial Hospital of Hai Duong
- District hospital of Cam Giang
- 19 communes
NCLE
- Setthathirath Hospital, Vientiane
- Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane,
- Friendship hospital, Vientiane,
- Luanprabang regional hospital
IPNT
- Provincial Hospital of Binh Dinh
- District Hospital of Phu Cat
IP HCMC
- Ben Tre provincial hospital
- Cu Lao Minh district hospitalIP Cambodia
- Provincial hospital of Takkeo
- Provincial hospital of Kampong Cham
Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -3
18. Vertices: case definition of SARI adopted in Vietnam and used to report the
cases:
≤ 05 y.o. > 05 y.o.
Cough or breathing difficulty
AND
One of the following:
Tachypnea
Chest indrawing
General signs of danger
Onset of symptoms up to and including 7
days
Fever ≥ 38o C (or history of fever)
AND
Cough OR sore throat OR breathing difficulty
AND
One of the following:
≥ 30 respirations/min
New infiltrate on chest X-ray
Inability to speak full sentences
Use of accessory respiratory muscles
Arterial O2 saturation ≤ 92% on air (no
oxygen therapy)
Onset of symptoms ≤ 7 days
Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -4
19. Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -5
Findings/outcomes:
Improving surveillance through a better knowledge of
some EIDs: ARI&AES. 2 examples:
Improving surveillance in Lao PDR
Improving surveillance in Cambodia:
20. Improving surveillance in Lao PDR:
• Technical assistance in microbiology and epidemiology
• ALRI surveillance, complementary approach to the other
surveillance system implemented (EWORS, EWARN, ILI):
• ILI: 2007 to 2008 : 507 ILI specimens collected → 142 (28 %)
+ve for IAV and IBV, 2009 : 533 specimens collected → 139
(26 %) +ve for Influenza IAV and IVB.
• ALRI: Jul 08 to Oct 09: 222 specimens collected → 26(11.7%)
+ve for IAV and IVB; 24 sputum specimens collected for
bacteriology testing: 11(45.8%) +ve: S. pneumonia, H.
influenza, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, K. pneumonia (+ C.
albicans)
• Contribution to ILI surveillance
• Strenghtening virology, bacteriology,
epidemiology capacities
• Implementing a new sentinel site in Luanprabang
Influenza A,B
11%
Enterovirus
9%
HMPV
1%
Para influenza
virus
4%
Mixed
2%
Negative
73%
ALRI Virology tested, 2009
N=139
Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -6
21. Improving surveillance in Cambodia – 1 (Vong S and al.):
Implementation of the ALRI surveillance activities in April,2007: on Nov 2009, 3177
patients enrolled. In depth clinical classification and data validation (Pr. Mayaud and
al., Paris).
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BK : # positive / # cases (%)
Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -7
23. 23
International Short Course in Biostatistics - REDI centre -
Singapore, November 9-13, 2009.
Capacity strengthening and epidemiology
24 trainees/12 from SISEA and
12 from Indonesia
Daily and final evaluation; very
good input from SISEA trainees
Very good perception by the
trainees
New ties with professionals
coming from Indonesia, and
Singapore
High quality of the collaboration
with REDI and NUS, who are
demanding for other
collaboration in training
Examples: SISEA/Pasteur -9
24. Examples: MDBS (Mekong Basin
Disease Surveillance) -1
Objective:
“to strengthen national and Mekong sub-regional
capabilities in disease surveillance and response to
outbreaks of priority diseases, in order that they can be
effectively controlled.”
Nodes: healthcare facilities involved in cross-boarder activities
Vertices: weekly reports, training sessions, workshops
Findings: improved skills and commitment regarding
infectious diseases in this area;
28. Examples: TB -1
Objective: integrative part of DOTS
Definition: DOTS strategy= Directly Observed Treatment Short-
course strategy
sustained political commitment
uninterrupted supply of quality-assured drugs
access to quality-assured sputum microscopy
standardized short-course chemotherapy including direct
observation of the treatment at least during the intensive phase
Recording and reporting system standardized information
system enabling outcome assessment
objective of the information system:
Activities evaluation
Burden disease: reported smear+ cases, prevalence of smear +
pulmonary cases (prevalence survey), tuberculin survey
And also: HIV co-infections, and drug resistance monitoring
(laboratories network)
29. Nodes:
National level: local/regional TB centers; TB laboratories
International level= NTP
Vertices:
Standardized quarterly reports: case report and treatment
outcomes
Laboratory quality control activities and surveillance of
sensitivity
Anti TB drugs management &supply
Is a centralized system:
Examples: TB -2
30. Findings:
Monitoring NTP at the global, regional and
national level.
burden of disease estimation advocacy for
appropriate funding and policy
(Re-)emerging diseases: MDR- and XDR-TB
help to adapt and monitor the response
Triggers operational research: DOTS
evaluation and implementation according to
specific context and constrains
Examples: TB -3
32. Rapid assessment:
Strengths
Distributed systems: “filter-effect”, improving the sensitivity and
specificity:
A weak signal will be tested through other centres/nodes:
if confirmed, then amplification= sensitivity ( true +ves)
+ve feedback
If not confirmed, then attenuation= specificity ( false –ves)
-ve feedback
Multiple identical weak signals will sum in a strong signal
(noise reduction)
Needs a dense network covering the area at interest
Feed the curiosity (scientific) and develop the exchanges:
techniques, procedures, quality control,
Extend the size sample to give more consistency to the findings
34. Rapid assessment:
Weaknesses
2- Appropriate use of data for a comprehensive and
coordinated response in due-time:
Cross boarder actions not easy to set up: political and
cultural concerns
Continuity/long-term= sustainability
Same data may be interpreted differently by the partners,
and may trigger different responses.
35. Rapid assessment:
Opportunities
IT development: from ancient paper register (TB register) era to
web-based reporting system (TB, MDBS)
Political and economical development, international cooperation,
necessary in our global village: countries have mutual
advantages to cooperate, both developed and developing
countries
“Public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC,
IHR 2005): increasing global threats (SARS, AI, SI, bioterrorism)
and global awareness improved fund raising
Progress in knowledge (molecular biology) forces us to imagine
new possibilities and increases awareness on the extraordinary
adaptability of the human pathogens to our weapons: objective
tends to cooperate rather than to eradicate
36. Rapid assessment:
Threats
Multiplication of networks not consistently
interconnected: conflictual information, adverse effect in
term of PH action
Political and/or economical consequences: is it possible
that neighboring adverse countries share fully sensitive
information (Ex. North Korea/South Korea,
Myanmar/Thailand, China, Japan, …) limitation of
the global world?
Sharing biological material: whom do the strains
collected belong to?
37. Conclusions & prospects -1
The whole is more than its part:
TB control NP success is to some extend due to a strong and
simple interconnected information system
Quick response rely on a dense and fluid network: SRAS
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Increases sensitivity and sensibility
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Timeliness, accuracy and adaptability to correct quickly
what Science bet before A(H1N1)sw-o regarding a
possible pandemic:
Conclusions & prospects -2
39. References
Modern Infectious Epidemiology, 2nd Ed. Johan Giesecke. 2002,
Arnold
Modern Epidemiology, 3rd Ed. KJ Rothman, S Greensland, TL
Lash. 2008, Lipicott Williams & Wlkins
IHR 2005, WHO
Management of Tuberculosis: A Guide to the Essentials of Good
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6th Ed. International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung
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40. Acknowledgements
Universitas Indonesia, Center for Research and Integrated
Development Tropical Health and Infectious Diseases
Pasteur Institute and International Pasteur Institutes Network:
Institut Pasteur du Cambodge: Dr Sirenda Vong, Dr Sowath, Dr Laurence Borand, Sophie Goyet, Dr
Philippe Buchy, Dr Bertrand Guillard. Pr Jean-Louis Sarthou,
NIHE: Pr Nguyen Tran Hien, Dr Nguyen Thi Thuong, Dr. Nguyen Van Duong
Institut Pasteur Nha Trang: Pr Bui Trong Chien, Dr. Vien Quang Mai, Dr.Trinh Thi Xuan Mai
Institut Pasteur Ho Chi Minh Ville: Pr Tran Ngoc Huu, Dr.Kien Quoc, Dr. Huong Vu Thi Hu Que
Institut Pasteur de Shanghai: Dr Wei Wang, Dr Peijun Ren, Dr Jin Zhang, Dr Changgui Dong, Dr Yize Li, Dr
Peng Lu, Dr Vincent Deubel, M. I. Robin
NCLE: Dr Phengta Vongprachanh, Dr Hansila Phoupaseuth, Dr. Somvay Ongkhammy, Dr Matthida, Dr
Darouny Phonekeo, Dr. Noikaseumsy Sithivong, Dr Thongchanh Sissouk, M. Phayvan, Dr Anne-Charlotte
Sentilhes
Unité de Coordination : Mme Silvia Ostberg, Dr Roberto Bruzzone (HKU-Pasteur Institute
Institut Pasteur Paris: Dr Isabelle Catala, Dr Marc Jouan, Dr Arnaud Fontanet, Kathrin Victoir
REDI centre: Dr Rodney HOFF, Dr. Za Reed, Dr Philippe Cavallier, Mrs. Quake Ai Li
NUS: Pr. CHIA, Dr. Elizabeth Alderman Jahncke
And International SOS/AEA company