Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease - Path Forward

Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease—A Path Forward

Introduction Major global stakeholder groups including the United Nations, World Health Organization and Institute of Medicine seek to raise awareness of the threat to global health and security of chronic and non-communicable diseases. These conditions comprise 50-85% of the global annual morbidity burden and constitute a major drain on national economies. To move from awareness of this proble...

Non-communicable disease surveillance and population surveys.

The Survey Effectiveness of Active Method in Communicable Disease Surveillance

Background and purpose: Surveillance is a system of continuing health checks, is considered as a critical part of public health practice for planning and implantation of effective prevention and control interventions for communicable diseases in the region. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of an active method of data collection on the improvement of these d...

A Review of the Methodology and Tools of Childhood & Adolescence Surveillance and Prevention of Adult Non-communicable Disease Survey (CASPIAN) Conducted in Iran

Background and Objectives: Iran has carried out a series of surveys based on the Global school-based student health survey (GSHS) referred to as the CASPIAN. The aim of this paper was to compare the methodology and tools of CASPIAN surveys and to propose recommendations and suggestions for future implementations.   Methods: The data of this systematic review study were gathered from the World...

the survey effectiveness of active method in communicable disease surveillance

background and purpose: surveillance is a system of continuing health checks, is considered as a critical part of public health practice for planning and implantation of effective prevention and control interventions for communicable diseases in the region. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of an active method of data collection on the improvement of these diseases surveillance...