Integrated disease surveillance and response technical guidelines: Booklet Two: sections 1, 2, and 3, 3rd ed

Overview

The IDSR strategy incorporates both Indicator-Based surveillance (IBS) and Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) approaches to early detection of priority diseases, conditions and events. This section describes how to detect priority diseases, conditions and events using standard case definitions. The section also gives guidance on establishing EBS and using this approach for AlertAlerts detection, triaging and verification to detect public health events. The section also gives a description of procedures which need to be followed when planning for improvements of surveillance and response activities in your catchment area and emphasizes the role of the laboratory in surveillance and response.