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Low-Cost National Media-Based Surveillance System for Public Health Events,Bangladesh |
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| Authors: | Trong T. Ao Mahmudur Rahman Farhana Haque Apurba Chakraborty M. Jahangir Hossain Sabbir Haider A.S.M. Alamgir Jeremy Sobel Stephen P. Luby Emily S. Gurley |
| Affiliation: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.T. Ao, J. Sobel, S.P. Luby); ;Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M. Rahman, F. Haque, A. Chakraborty, S. Haider, A.S.M. Alamgir); ;icddr,b, Dhaka (F. Haque, A. Chakraborty, M.J. Hossain, S.P. Luby, E.S. Gurley) |
| Abstract: | We assessed a media-based public health surveillance system in Bangladesh during 2010–2011. The system is a highly effective, low-cost, locally appropriate, and sustainable outbreak detection tool that could be used in other low-income, resource-poor settings to meet the capacity for surveillance outlined in the International Health Regulations 2005. |
| Keywords: | disease outbreaks surveillance infectious diseases public health newspapers television Bangladesh |