ReviewThe Lancet. Planetary health2020
People-centred surveillance: a narrative review of community-based surveillance among crisis-affected populations.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Community-based surveillance of infectious diseases: a systematic review of drivers of success.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Bridging primary care with artificial intelligence: toward a global 1.5-Tier Healthcare System.npj health systems · 2026Review
- Real-time analytical insights for disease surveillance and response during the severe drought and food security crisis, Somalia 2022-2023.Conflict and health · 2026Article
- Estimating mortality in conflict settings: expert perspectives on methods, barriers, and ethical challenges.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Event-Based surveillance (EBS) implementation in unstable and conflict settings: lessons learned from Sudan.Conflict and health · 2026Article
- Popular health surveillance in the face of climate emergencies.PLOS global public health · 2026Review
- Climate-informed surveillance for climate-sensitive infectious diseases in Somalia: early warning systems, policy gaps, and preparedness priorities.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026Review
- Community-based surveillance programs in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and the DRC: a comparative assessment of integration in humanitarian crisis contexts.Conflict and health · 2025Article
- Developing community-based surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases: lessons learned from Indonesia.Global health action · 2025Article
- Promoting stakeholder awareness, collaboration, and engagement in One Health surveillance with a serious game.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Modeling the determinants of community engagement in community-based surveillance of infectious diseases: Applying the Health Belief Model.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- A confirmatory analysis of the knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions questionnaire for community-based surveillance of infectious diseases: a cross-sectional study in Malaysia.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2025Article
- Use of community-based surveillance to enhance emerging infectious disease intelligence generation in Indonesia.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Assessment of community-based resilience to malaria in two transmission settings in Western Burkina Faso.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Event-based surveillance in the WHO African region: baseline implementation before the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Rapid response to hemorrhagic fever emergence in Guinea: community-based systems can enhance engagement and sustainability.PloS one · 2025Article
- Strengthening Outbreak Detection in Africa to Achieve the 7-1-7 Global Framework: Challenges and Opportunities.Public health reviews · 2025Review
- Embedding public health intelligence into the global public health architecture.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Feasibility and challenges in sustaining a community based surveillance system in post-Ebola Sierra Leone.Conflict and health · 2024Article
- An indicator framework for the monitoring and evaluation of event-based surveillance systems.The Lancet. Global health · 2024Review
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Abstract
Outbreaks of disease in settings affected by crises grow rapidly due to late detection and weakened public health systems. Where surveillance is underfunctioning, community-based surveillance can contribute to rapid outbreak detection and response, a core capacity of the International Health Regulations. We reviewed articles describing the potential for community-based surveillance to detect diseases of epidemic potential, outbreaks, and mortality among populations affected by crises. Surveillance objectives have included the early warning of outbreaks, active case finding during outbreaks, case finding for eradication programmes, and mortality surveillance. Community-based surveillance can provide sensitive and timely detection, identify valid signals for diseases with salient symptoms, and provide continuity in remote areas during cycles of insecurity. Effectiveness appears to be mediated by operational requirements for continuous supervision of large community networks, verification of a large number of signals, and integration of community-based surveillance within the routine investigation and response infrastructure. Similar to all community health systems, community-based surveillance requires simple design, reliable supervision, and early and routine monitoring and evaluation to ensure data validity. Research priorities include the evaluation of syndromic case definitions, electronic data collection for community members, sentinel site designs, and statistical techniques to counterbalance false positive signals.
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