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

• DOI: 10.2471/blt.11.097808
• Publication Date: 2016-06-13T09:14:27Z
• Authors: Hugo Razuri; Candice Romero; Yeny Tinoco; Maria Claudia Gue...; Ernesto Ortiz; Maria Silva; Erik Reaves; Maya Williams; Victor Alberto La...; Eric S Halsey; Jorge Gomez; Eduardo Azziz-Bau...; Marc-Alain Widdowson; Joe Bresee; Ann Moen; Timothy M Uyeki; Andrew Bennett; Joel M Montgomery; Daniel G Bausch
• Keywords: 0303 health sciences; World Health Organization; Risk Assessment; 3. Good health; Cohort Studies; 03 medical and health sciences; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype; Influenza, Human; Peru; Humans; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Pandemics; Sentinel Surveillance

Disease surveillance, essential for guid -ing the public health response to influ-enza and other respiratory diseases, al-lows for early case detection and for the implementation of preventive measures. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends passive health-provider based surveillance, or “sentinel surveil -lance”, for influenza-like illness (ILI)