ReviewJournal of infection and public health2020
Epidemiologic surveillance for controlling Covid-19 pandemic: types, challenges and implications.
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- Comparison of Four Active SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Strategies in Representative Population Sample Points: Two-Factor Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Trial
- Comparing methods to estimate time-varying reproduction numbers using genomic and epidemiological data.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026Article
- Economic evaluation of wastewater surveillance in Ontario, Canada, using COVID-19 as a case study.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2026Article
- Monitoring pneumonia onset and severe respiratory infectious diseases using quantitative computed tomography, validation amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak at the end of 2022 in the Chinese mainland.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- Co-prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and Noroviruses in Wastewater Collection and Treatment Facilities of the Eastern Cape Region, South Africa: An Exacerbated Public and Environmental Health Risk Concern.Food and environmental virology · 2026Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Detection in International Travelers Through Wastewater-Based Epidemiology at the Kigali International Airport: Genomic Surveillance Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Communicable Disease Surveillance in South Africa and LMICs: A Systematic Review of Systems, Challenges, and Integration with Environmental Health.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Review
- Acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025Review
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- Early Warning of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Using Social Media and Digital Data: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Predictive quality of census-based socio-economic indicators on Covid-19 infection risk at a fine spatial scale in France.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Epidemiological Analysis of the COVID-19 Clusters in the Early Stages of the Epidemic in Shanghai, China: Pandemic-to-Epidemic Response Shift.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Sudan's Mpox surveillance system during the 2022 pandemic: a retrospective evaluation.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Assessment of COVID-19 death surveillance during the pandemic period in Recife.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Multi-level quality assessment of United States COVID-19 epidemiological surveillance.PloS one · 2025Article
- Health Security inequalities in Non-EU European Countries: A Cross-National Comparative Assessment Using an Integrated MCDM-Machine Learning Approach.F1000Research · 2025Article
- Prevalence of and risk factors for infectious disease syndromic symptoms among pilgrimage to Arba'een mass gathering religious in 2023.New microbes and new infections · 2024Article
- Evaluating Senegal's COVID-19 surveillance system for early detection and response: lessons from the Keur Massar district, March 03, 2020 to May 31, 2022.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Influenza-Like Illness in Lesotho From July 2020 to July 2021: Population-Based Participatory Surveillance Results.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
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Abstract
The objectives of the study was to determine the types, challenges and implications of surveillance methods for controlling Covid-19 pandemic. An integrative article review was done. The source of data were documents from WHO, Euro-surveillance, CDC, Saudi CDC, MOH, and journals from PubMed, Medline, etc. The inclusion searching criteria were surveillance, Covid-19, types, benefits and challenges, during the period 2005-2020. Published studies, reviews and guidelines that determined these criteria were collected. Data extraction and analysis were completed for all included articles. A critical appraisal was done based on the University of Michigan Practice Guideline's levels of evidence. The final sample for the integrative review comprised 30 studies. Results revealed that types of Covid-9 surveillance includes routine surveillance (comprehensive, case-based, and aggregated weakly methods), active, wildlife, syndromic, sentinel and sentinel-syndromic methods. Laboratory and hospital-based surveillance are another important types. Help-lines, surveys, participatory electronic, digital and event-based surveillance are relatively new cost-effective methods. Many surveillance indicators can be calculated. Timely and accurate of surveillance data is an essential element for effective Covid-19 interventions. Regarding challenges, the quality of surveillance in developing countries is constrained by resources and training. The main limitations of surveillance are under-ascertainment/under-reporting, lack of timeliness and completeness of surveillance data. In conclusion, surveillance is a cornerstones for controlling Covid-19 pandemic. Enhancing Covid-19 surveillance is vital for rapid cases detection, containing spread & ending pandemic.
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