Population-based active surveillance cohort studies for influenza: lessons from Peru

Influenza has been a major threat to human health throughout history. Although safe and effective influenza vaccines are available, every year seasonal influenza affects from 5% to 15% of the world's population and causes an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. Population-based active...

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Published in:Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012-04, Vol.90 (4), p.318-320
Main Authors: Razuri, Hugo, Romero, Candice, Tinoco, Yeny, Guezala, Maria Claudia, Ortiz, Ernesto, Silva, Maria, Reaves, Erik, Williams, Maya, Laguna-Torres, Victor Alberto, Halsey, Eric S, Gomez, Jorge, Azziz-Baumgartner, Eduardo, Widdowson, Marc-Alain, Bresee, Joe, Moen, Ann, Uyeki, Timothy M, Bennett, Andrew, Montgomery, Joel M, Bausch, Daniel G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Active control
Children
Cohort Studies
Complement
Disease transmission
Diseases
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Health
Health aspects
Households
Humans
Influenza
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype - isolation & purification
Influenza, Human - epidemiology
Influenza, Human - prevention & control
Influenza, Human - virology
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Mortality
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Peru - epidemiology
Public health
Risk Assessment - methods
Risk factors
Routines
Sentinel Surveillance
Surveillance
Surveillance systems
Swine influenza
Theme Issue
Vaccines
Viral proteins
Viruses
World Health Organization
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Summary:Influenza has been a major threat to human health throughout history. Although safe and effective influenza vaccines are available, every year seasonal influenza affects from 5% to 15% of the world's population and causes an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. Population-based active surveillance can complement routine passive sentinel surveillance systems by providing important public health data and insights into the complex epidemiology of influenza. In 2009, the US Naval Medical Research Unit 6 in Lima, Peru, with support from the Peruvian Ministry of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center in Silver Springs, implemented and has since maintained an active population-based household cohort study for ILI as a complement to the country's routine passive surveillance system. Mustering the resources to include this valuable complement to passive surveillance systems should be a priority. Collaboration between developing countries and those with greater resources to dedicate to public health research, as exemplified by our project in Peru, is probably the most viable strategy for achieving this.
ISSN:0042-9686
1564-0604
DOI:10.2471/BLT.11.097808