Shed me some light...

 

Since I haven’t enrolled in any lectures regarding this topic, I really don’t know what to write in this entry, hence the title: shed me some light. I would like to discuss about two organizations that are responsible in monitoring and making the enquiry about the health surveillance.

 One surveillance system is under the well-known health organization; WHO, to be specific, the department of communicable disease and surveillance response (CSR). This department; CSR have an integrated global and alert system for any public health emergency in case of new emergence diseases or even the current health problems in the world population. This system is called as Global Alert and Response or in short GAR have several core functions which basically functions as to increase readiness and preparedness in facing an epidemic or pandemic situation by strengthening the biorisk reduction and the global operational platform to support outbreak response. In order to achieve the missions of GAR, CSR also created a global network of institutions; Global Outbreak Alert andResponse Network (GOARN) which act as the outreach programme for GAR to cover the world’s population. The video above is a short clip from the WHO webpage explaining about the aims of GROAN network formation. GAR covers a wide range of diseases listed from Anthrax to Yellow fever but this list is growing as new emergence disease occurs around the world

Second organization that can involve in the health surveillance monitoring system is from ex-US World War II Malaria commission which is founded by Rockefeller Foundation. Nowadays, with the name of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it also has some sort of surveillance system. Under health and safety topics, there’s Emergency Preparedness and Response subtopic which covers several specific hazards and since this organization has a military root, it also focus on bioterrorism, chemical and radiation emergencies and any mass casualty caused by explosions or blasts. However, CDC also takes interest in recent outbreaks and incidents. CDC also provide some guideline for every human force that can be involved in any emergency situation including guidelines for health care facilities in preparation and planning in adapting guidance for health care professional in facing disasters, pandemic, bioterrorism and so on.

As a whole, from these two organizations which are responsible to perform the health surveillance, it’s also important that all health care professional take part in the network of recording and reporting system so that all health incidents can be monitored and in case any of future occurrence of the same incident, it can be prevented and if unsuccessful we can at least prepared and ready for it.