{"id":3264,"date":"2018-04-12T01:15:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T01:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pphsn.net\/?page_id=3264"},"modified":"2023-01-25T00:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:06:34","slug":"pacific-syndromic-surveillance-system","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pphsn.net\/services\/pacific-syndromic-surveillance-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Syndromic Surveillance System"},"content":{"rendered":"
The PPHSN Pacific Syndromic Surveillance System (PSSS) was created as an early warning tool for the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network. <\/p>\n\n\n
Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2010, focal points of the International Health Regulations (IHR) together with PPHSN EpiNet representatives from the Pacific island countries (PICs) formed the PSSS. As a early warning tool, the PSSS becomes part of the WHO emergency surveillance and response (ESR) program that assists countries with strengthening infectious disease surveillance and response systems. The program includes providing technical advice, training, and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Objectives<\/strong> Consult the weekly PSSS report<\/a><\/strong>s<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent Developments<\/strong> Syndromic Surveillance Data Sources in the Pacific<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The PSSS uses existing health systems voluntary participation and cooperation in surveillance in order to provide early warnings of emerging health conditions for the PICs. In surveillance, a syndrome is a set of non-specific pre-diagnosis medical and other information that may indicate a disease outbreak. Syndromic surveillance thus focuses on early event detection: gathering and analyzing data in advance of diagnostic case confirmation to give early warning of a possible outbreak. Such early event detection is not supposed to provide a definitive determination that an outbreak is occurring. Rather, it is supposed to signal that an outbreak may be occurring, indicating a need for further evidence or triggering an investigation by public health officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More recently, syndromic surveillance has been expanded to include using \u2018existing health data in real time to provide immediate analysis and feedback to those charged with investigation and follow-up of potential outbreaks.\u2019 Moreover, a broader focus on electronic surveillance enables inclusion both early event detection and situational awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Syndromic surveillance in the PSSS is based on data that can come from the following sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table 1. EWARS indicator syndromes, case definitions and alert thresholds<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The PSSS collects, collates and reports surveillance data from twenty-three (23) PICs. Its main objective is to strengthen local outbreak response capacity, closely linked to PSSS alerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following set of actions for the PSSS by PICs since 2010 has allowed for an improved monitoring of indicator infectious disease trends, local epidemics and spreading pandemics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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