BACKGROUND Communicable disease surveillance is to have baseline data which will be helpful for planning and also for identifying epidemics under non-evident conditions. OBJECTIVE To delineate the pattern of occurrence of communicable diseases so as to enable early identification, followed by appropriate and timely response to outbreaks. MATERIALS AND METHODS Reports of listed communicable ...

The Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) has been an active participant in communicable disease activities (under a number of different names) for over a decade. However, because much of its work is behind the scenes and away from the public eye, not many people outside the Network know very much about CDNA, what it does or who is involved. This article is intended to fill in some of ...

Due to the upsurge of non-communicable diseases challenged communicable diseases, grown-up people are more affected by disease. so monitoring is unavoidable diminish mortality rate. In this paper using embedded and IoT technology, multi-physiological parameters probable in a single kit. First, human interaction with sensor second, data acquisition process, finally communication primary health c...

BACKGROUND The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, and there have been calls for adopting a multi-sectoral approach in developing policies and programs to address this burden. Evidence exists largely from high-income countries on the success (and lack thereof) of multi-sectoral approach in improving population level health outco...

The Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) consists of communicable disease authorities from various Australian Government agencies and state and territory health authorities, in addition to expert bodies and individuals in the specifi c areas of communicable disease epidemiology, clinical management, disease control and laboratory diagnosis. The CDNA provides national public health lea...

Introduction: NCDs are one of the major challenges for public health in 21st century, not only terms human suffering but also harm to socio-economic development country. As elderly population is likely increase future, and there a definite shift disease pattern i.e., from communicable non-communicable, it high time that care system gears itself growing needs an optimal comprehensive manner. To ...

In her article “Ebola, Team Communication, and Shame: But Shame on Whom?” Shannon (2015) describes communication failures that contributed to delayed diagnosis—and, arguably, to the death—of the first patient in the United States to present with Ebola virus disease (EVD) (Shannon 2015). Contrary to her belief that medical errors due to communication failure are a particular problem in the Unite...

Introduction ECDC long term strategies for surveillance include analysis of trends of communicable disease of public health importance for European Union countries to guide public health actions. The European Surveillance System (TESSy) holds data on 49 communicable diseases reported by 30 countries for at least the past five years. To simplify time related analysis using surveillance data, ECD...

Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online. Zambia is classified as a low-income country and has a population of 13.2 million people, of whom 51% reside in rural areas.1 There is a double burden of disease and, whilst the country still grapples with communicable diseases such as HIV and/or AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, there is a growing problem of no...