What does dengue disease surveillance contribute to predicting and detecting outbreaks and describing trends?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1022-1041

  Runge Ranzinger, Silvia ^a   Horstick, Olaf ^b   Marx, Michael ^a   Kroeger, Axel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active surveillance; Dengue surveillance; Epidemic response; Health Information System; Outbreak detection; Outbreak prediction; Passive surveillance

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASE; DENGUE FEVER; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIC; FEASIBILITY STUDY; PREDICTION; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT;

DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICISM; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

SYRINGA;

EID: 48349141627     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02112.x     Document Type: Review

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