A description of malaria sentinel surveillance: A case study in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yukich, Joshua O ^a   Butts, Jessica ^b   Miles, Melody ^b,c   Berhane, Yemane ^d   Nahusenay, Honelgn ^d   Malone, Joseph L ^b   Dissanayake, Gunawardena ^e   Reithinger, Richard ^e,f   Keating, Joseph ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d ADDIS CONTINENTAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

^e President's Malaria Initiative   (Ethiopia)

^f RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemic detection; Ethiopia; Health facility; Malaria; Sentinel surveillance; Short message system (SMS)

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES NILI; ANOPHELES PHAROENSIS; ARTICLE; BED NET; DATA BASE; E-MAIL; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEXT MESSAGING;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899053648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-88     Document Type: Article

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