Focus, vigilance, resilience: towards stronger infectious disease surveillance, threat detection and response in the EU/EEA.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Country of Publication: Sweden NLM ID: 100887452 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1560-7917 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 1025496X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Euro Surveill Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Stockholm, Sweden : European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
      Original Publication: Saint-Maurice : Hôpital national de Saint-Maurice
    • Subject Terms:
      European Union* ; Communicable Diseases*/epidemiology ; Communicable Diseases*/diagnosis ; Public Health*; Humans ; Population Surveillance ; Europe/epidemiology ; Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control ; Sentinel Surveillance ; Communicable Disease Control/methods ; Public Health Surveillance/methods
    • Abstract:
      This perspective summarises and explains the long-term surveillance framework 2021-2027 for infectious diseases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) published in April 2023. It shows how shortcomings in the areas of public health focus, vigilance and resilience will be addressed through specific strategies in the coming years and how these strategies will lead to stronger surveillance systems for early detection and monitoring of public health threats as well as informing their effective prevention and control. A sharper public health focus is expected from a more targeted list of notifiable diseases, strictly public-health-objective-driven surveillance standards, and consequently, leaner surveillance systems. Vigilance should improve through mandatory event reporting, more automated epidemic intelligence processing and increased use of genomic surveillance. Finally, EU/EEA surveillance systems should become more resilient by modernising the underlying information technology infrastructure, expanding the influenza sentinel surveillance system to other respiratory viruses for better pandemic preparedness, and increasingly exploiting potentially more robust alternative data sources, such as electronic health records and wastewater surveillance. Continued close collaboration across EU/EEA countries will be key to ensuring the full implementation of this surveillance framework and more effective disease prevention and control.
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Europe, EU/EEA; infectious diseases; molecular methods; sentinel surveillance; strategic framework; surveillance
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240823 Date Completed: 20240823 Latest Revision: 20240904
    • Publication Date:
      20240904
    • Accession Number:
      PMC11367071
    • Accession Number:
      10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.34.2400066
    • Accession Number:
      39176987