Key Considerations: Community-Based Surveillance in Public Health- Sudan

Reliefweb
May 24, 2023

Key Considerations: Community-Based Surveillance in Public Health- Sudan


Recent large-scale epidemics and pandemics have demonstrated the importance of engaging communities as partners in preventing, detecting and responding to public health emergencies. Community-based surveillance (CBS), which relies on communities to report public health information, can be an important part of effective, inclusive and accountable responses to humanitarian and public health emergencies, as well as long-term disease control.