District Health Action Plan - STATE HEALTH SOCIETY-----BIHAR

Integrated Disease Surveillance Project
Goal
PART – E
To reduce the burden of morbidity and mortality due to various diseases in the district.
Objective
� Establishing a sustainable decentralized system of disease surveillance for timely
and effective public health action.
� Integrating disease surveillance activities. To avoid duplication and facilitate
sharing of information across all disease control programmes so that valid data
are available for appropriate health decision.
Epidemic branch deals with Communicable Diseases, i.e. Waterborne Diseases such as
Cholera, Gastroenteritis, Typhoid and Infective hepatitis, Zoonotic Diseases like,
Plague and Leptospirosis, Arthropod borne diseases like, Dengue fever, Kala-azar and
Malaria, Air borne disease like Meningococcal Meningitis and provides health relief
services in the wake of natural calamities like heavy rain, floods, draught, cyclone etc.
to prevent post calamity disease outbreak. The collection and a good analysis of data
analysis of this data gives us the indication when to apply what method to stop epidemic
and control it.
Strategies adopted
� Operationalization of norms and standards of case detection, reporting format.
� Streamlining the MIS system- Establishing Web based & channels for data
collection within the district and transmission mechanisms to state level.
� Analyzing line listing of cases and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
mapping approach Preparation of graphs & charts on the basis of reports for
planning strategies during epidemic outbreak.
� Training to all the grass root level workers, MO‟s & CHC staff in Data
Collection, and data transfer mechanisms.
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