Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance ... - PHRplus

List of TablesTable 1: Surveillance activities to detect and respond to priority diseases, by level 7of the health systemTable 2: Priority diseases for IDSR in Ghana (n=23) 13Table 3: Mode of reporting Ghana’s 23 priority diseases to the next higher levels 22Table 4: Deadlines for reporting to the next higher level 23Table 5: Objectives, tools and methods of descriptive analysis for communicable 31diseasesTable 6: Alert and epidemic/action threshold for priority diseases under surveillance 40Table 7: Daily water needs per person during outbreak and non-outbreak situations 62Table 8: District-level indicators for monitoring quality of surveillance and response 72at the health facilityTable 9: Surveillance function and supervisory activities 75List of FiguresFigure 1: Information flow in an integrated disease surveillance system 5Figure 2: Weekly trend of cholera in Accra Metropolis June-August 2001 compared 33with same period 2000Figure 3: Number of cases by day of onset of symptoms 33Figure 4: Meningitis cases from the Bolgatanga district 34Figure 5: Spot map of District X 35viiiTable of Contents