Open AccessKnowledge and attitude of mandatory infectious disease notification among final year medical students
Author(s) -
Htoo Htoo Kyaw Soe,
Nan Nitra Than,
Htay Lwin,
Khine Lynn Phyu,
Mila Nu Nu Htay,
Soe Moe,
Adinegara Lutfi Abas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_300_17
Subject(s) - medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , family medicine , disease , communicable disease , descriptive statistics , notification system , positive attitude , environmental health , medical emergency , public health , nursing , psychology , computer network , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , computer science
Disease surveillance is one of the major components to combat against infectious diseases. As health-care professionals are indispensable to mandatory notifiable disease surveillance, their knowledge and attitudes toward infectious disease notification played an important role for timely and effective reporting to the surveillance system. Therefore, we aimed to determine the knowledge of mandatory notifiable infectious diseases in Malaysia and attitude towards infectious disease reporting among final year medical students.