Notification of infectious diseases by general practitioners in New South Wales: Survey before and after the introduction of the Public Health Act 1991 (NSW)

Bek, Mark; Lonie, Cait; Lévy, Michaël

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb127598.x

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“…This underscores the need to provide physicians with proper training on surveillance and repeatedly inform physicians about the notifiable disease under surveillance. Such training has been shown to improve the awareness and practice in New South Wales 20 and Washington. 13…”

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Knowledge, Awareness, and Compliance of Disease Surveillance and Notification Among Jordanian Physicians in Residency Programs

Abdulrahim

Alasasfeh

Khader

et al. 2019

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Health professionals’ knowledge and awareness of the disease surveillance is essential for reporting diseases to health departments. This study aimed to assess the knowledge and attitudes of Jordanian physicians toward public health surveillance of communicable disease. A cross-sectional study was conducted among resident doctors who were working in 4 main Ministry of Health hospitals and 2 teaching hospitals in Jordan in September 2017. A self-administered paper-based questionnaire was used to collect the data. The questionnaire collected information about sociodemographic and practice-related characteristics of physicians and included items to assess their knowledge of surveillance and reporting practices. This study included 223 physicians (152 males and 71 females). About 60.1% of the residents were graduates from medical schools in Jordan and the remaining (39.9%) were graduates from medical schools in other countries. Approximately two thirds of residents (62.3%) were doing their residency in Ministry of Health hospitals and the rest (37.7%) in 2 teaching hospitals. Only 44.8% of physicians had defined surveillance correctly. Only 27.4% of physicians had been educated or trained on surveillance. About 39.5% of physicians had filled at least one report form during their practice. The main reasons for not reporting mandatory diseases were high workload (49.8%) and being not trained on reporting diseases (46.6%). A relatively high percentage of physicians have insufficient knowledge of surveillance and reporting of notifiable communicable diseases. Training of physicians on surveillance and diseases notification is highly needed. The practice of disease notification should be enforced in Jordanian hospitals.

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Knowledge, Awareness, and Compliance of Disease Surveillance and Notification Among Jordanian Physicians in Residency Programs

Abdulrahim

Alasasfeh

Khader

et al. 2019

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“…6 The inclusion of the private health care sector as a sentinel point for disease surveillance is essential but difficult to achieve, although regular contact with private practitioners and continuous feedback has been effective in some surveillance activities. 7 In preparation for a large trial on a vaccine for typhoid fever, we conducted fever surveillance in two urban squatter settlements of Karachi, Pakistan, starting in January 2002. The study site was chosen because it had a high reported incidence of typhoid fever and no specific typhoid fever control programme had been initiated.…”

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Enhanced disease surveillance through private health care sector in Pakistan: experience from a vaccine trial

Khan

Sahito

Khan

et al. 2004

Bull World Health Organ

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“…This is partly because some of them are not aware of the reportable diseases and/or because of ignorance or the fact that they had forgotten to notify (19) . In addition, lack of awareness of legal obligations to report and unfamiliarity with the notification procedures also contribute to under reporting (20,21,22,23) . As a solution to this problem and to increase the number of reported cases, it was suggested to obtain information from other sources such as laboratories (24,25) , infection control units in hospitals, record room personnel (17) , nurses, midwives and health visitors (18) .…”

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Use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in communicable disease surveillance – a review of literature

Chandrasekar

2012

Sri Lanka J Bio-Medical Informatics

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Background: Electronic reporting of integrated disease surveillance and response (eIDSR) was implemented in two states in NorthEast Nigeria as an innovative strategy to improve disease reporting. Its objectives were to improve the timeliness and completeness of IDSR reporting by health facilities, prompt identi cation of public health events, timely information sharing, and public health action. We evaluated the project to determine whether it met its set objectives. Method: We conducted a cross-sectional study to assess and document the lessons learned from the project. We reviewed the performance of the Local Government Areas (LGAs) on rumors identi cation and reporting of IDSR data on the eIDSR and the traditional system using a checklist. Respondents were interviewed online on the relevance; e ciency; sustainability; project progress and effectiveness; effectiveness of management; and potential impact and scalability of the strategy using structured questionnaires. Quantitative data were analyzed and presented as proportions using an MS Excel spreadsheet. Qualitative data was cleaned, converted into an MS Excel database, and analyzed using Epi Info version 7.2 to obtain frequencies. Responses were also presented as direct quotes or word clouds. Results: The number of health facilities reporting IDSR increased from 103 to 228 (117%) before and after implementation of the eIDSR respectively. The completeness of IDSR reports in the last six months before the evaluation was ≥ 85%. Of the 201 rumors identi ed and veri ed, 161 (80%) were from the eIDSR pilot sites. The majority of the stakeholders interviewed believed that eIDSR met its predetermined objectives for public health surveillance. The bene ts of eIDSR included timely reporting and response to alerts and disease outbreaks, improved completeness, and timeliness of reporting, and supportive supervision to the operational levels. The strategy helped the stakeholders to appreciate their roles in public health surveillance. Conclusion: The eIDSR increased the number of health facilities reporting IDSR, enabled early identi cation, reporting, and veri cation of alerts, improved completeness of reports, and supportive supervision on staff at the operational levels. It was well accepted by the stakeholder as a system that made reporting easy with the potential to improve the public health surveillance system in Nigeria.

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Notification of infectious diseases by general practitioners in New South Wales: Survey before and after the introduction of the Public Health Act 1991 (NSW)

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Knowledge, Awareness, and Compliance of Disease Surveillance and Notification Among Jordanian Physicians in Residency Programs

Knowledge, Awareness, and Compliance of Disease Surveillance and Notification Among Jordanian Physicians in Residency Programs

Enhanced disease surveillance through private health care sector in Pakistan: experience from a vaccine trial

Use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in communicable disease surveillance – a review of literature

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