Evaluation of the integrated disease surveillance and response system for infectious diseases control in northern Ghana

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Adokiya, Martin Nyaaba ^a,b   Awoonor Williams, John Koku ^c   Barau, Inuwa Yau ^d   Beiersmann, Claudia ^a   Mueller, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^c GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^d Federal Ministry of Health   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Data quality; Disease surveillance; Ghana; Health information system; Infectious diseases; Integrated; Response

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; MALE; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84924260158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1397-y     Document Type: Article

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