Data Officer- Monrovia
PARTNERS IN HEALTH
Following the Ebola outbreak of 2014, with its resultant toll on health and the economy amongst, the Liberian Health Sector developed the “Investment plan for building a Resilient Health System for Liberia” as a means of addressing gaps within the health sector as well as strengthening epidemic preparedness, surveillance and response. A component of the plan emphasized the expansion of the established surveillance, early warning, and response system to ensure prompt case detection and response to future public health events. The Ministry of Health, National Public Health Institute of Liberia, and partners, having reviewed numerous literature and examples, settled for the Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (eIDSR) as the electronic platform for instant notification of priority health conditions. With support primarily from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the system was developed and piloted in two counties in Liberia. An evaluation of the pilot funded by WHO was very positive and rated the system highly for sustainability, cost, ease of use, adaptability, average time (2 minutes) it took to send out a notification, maintenance, etc. This eIDSR utilized the existing mHero (two-way messaging system) processes combined with a custom offline application that synchronized with DHIS2...
Liberia : International
2022-07-12
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