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    Public health surveillance after the 2010 Haiti earthquake: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

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    Authors
    Polonsky, J
    Luquero, F
    Francois, G
    Rousseau, C
    Caleo, G
    Ciglenecki, I
    Delacre, C
    Siddiqui, M R
    Terzian, M
    Verhenne, L
    Porten, K
    Checchi, F
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    Epicentre, Paris, France.
    Issue Date
    2013-01-07
    
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    PLoS Currents Disasters
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    Background In January 2010, Haiti was struck by a powerful earthquake, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands and leaving millions homeless. In order to better understand the severity of the crisis, and to provide early warning of epidemics or deteriorations in the health status of the population, Médecins Sans Frontières established surveillance for infections of epidemic potential and for death rates and malnutrition prevalence. Methods Trends in infections of epidemic potential were detected through passive surveillance at health facilities serving as sentinel sites. Active community surveillance of death rates and malnutrition prevalence was established through weekly home visits. Results There were 102,054 consultations at the 15 reporting sites during the 26 week period of operation. Acute respiratory infections, acute watery diarrhoea and malaria/fever of unknown origin accounted for the majority of proportional morbidity among the diseases under surveillance. Several alerts were triggered through the detection of immediately notifiable diseases and increasing trends in some conditions. Crude and under-5 death rates, and acute malnutrition prevalence, were below emergency thresholds. Conclusion Disease surveillance after disasters should include an alert and response component, requiring investment of resources in informal networks that improve sensitivity to alerts as well as on the more common systems of data collection, compilation and analysis. Information sharing between partners is necessary to strengthen early warning systems. Community-based surveillance of mortality and malnutrition is feasible but requires careful implementation and validation.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10144/271999
    DOI
    10.1371/currents.dis.6aec18e84816c055b8c2a06456811c7a
    PubMed ID
    23330069
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    2157-3999
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1371/currents.dis.6aec18e84816c055b8c2a06456811c7a
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