Low-Cost National Media-Based Surveillance System for Public Health Events, Bangladesh

Abstract

We assessed a media-based public health surveillance system in Bangladesh during 2010–2011. The system is a highly effective, low-cost, locally appropriate, and sustainable outbreak detection tool that could be used in other low-income, resource-poor settings to meet the capacity for surveillance outlined in the International Health Regulations 2005.

Keywords

• disease outbreaks
• surveillance
• infectious diseases
• public health
• newspapers
• television