According to a byelaw on pandemic A/H1N1 influenza, the Ministry of Health required that all medical institutes should directly report within 2 hours through national epidemic disease information system once they found cases which comply with the definitions of probable, clinical and laboratory-confirmed cases.
IMD case information including demographics (age, sex and health unit), serogroup, onset date, and available clinical data, is entered by 36 local public health units into the integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS), the provincial reportable disease information system [ 11].
For this purpose, a genetic module was developed within EMPRES-i (FAO's global animal disease information system) linking epidemiological information from influenza events with virus characteristics and enabling combined analysis.
2.3 Surveillance Systems for Trans-boundary Humanumbernt and Animal Emergency Diseases A number of the programme's inputs were in the area of establishing and strengthening a structured animal disease information system, and building on the capacity assessment undertaken at the outset, considerable training work was done.
Multiple diseases information systems provide more comprehensive and reliable information sources for early warnings.
When we arrived in Oriximiná, only 2 cases had been registered in the national notifiable diseases information system.
Based on the SINAN database (national notifiable diseases information system), we extracted the severity distribution of dengue illness.
The selected municipalities had reported the largest number of leprosy cases and household contacts in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) from 2006 to 2010.
PHC: Primary healthcare; DOTS: Directly Observed Treatment Strategy; UH University Hospital PCATAT: Primary care assessment tool; SESAI Special Indigenous Health Agencyy (Secretaria de Saúde Indígena); SINAN: Notifiable diseases information system (Sistema de Informação de Agravos e Notificação); TB: Tuberculosis; BHU: Basic health unit; HS: Healthcare services.
For example, performance-based funding can lead to the distortion of information/selective reporting and separate disease-specific information systems [ 69, 70].
