Open AccessToward the development of an integrated climate-sensitive disease surveillance in southeast asian countries: A situational analysis
Author(s) -
Sandul Yasobant,
Somen Saha,
Tapasvi Puwar,
Deepak Saxena
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_285_19
Subject(s) - disease surveillance , warning system , early warning system , geography , disease , developing country , environmental planning , scope (computer science) , southeast asia , infectious disease (medical specialty) , data collection , sri lanka , situation analysis , environmental health , environmental resource management , business , medicine , economic growth , computer science , pathology , history , marketing , economics , mathematics , ancient history , environmental science , telecommunications , programming language , statistics , tanzania
Changes in climatic conditions influence the transmission of water and/or vector-borne diseases. It is one of the reasons for the emergence and re-emergence of various infectious diseases. This case study documents the learnings from selected Southeast Asian countries that can be useful for developing integrated disease surveillance and early warning system for selected climate-sensitive diseases. Through informal key-informant interviews and site-visits to Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Thailand, we studied the disease surveillance, meteorological surveillance and early warning systems. These leanings suggest that an integrated data sharing mechanism is essential for real-time disease prediction. Further, there is immense scope for developing mechanisms on the uniform in data collection, data processing and analysis. There is an urgent need for developing a multi-sectoral collaborative plan for the integration of surveillance for real-time prediction of climate-sensitive diseases.