Volume 23, Supplement—December 2017
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Global Health Security Supplement
Detect
Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Programs as a Strategy to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response
A. McKenzie André
, Augusto Lopez, Samantha Perkins, Stephanie Lambert, Lesley Chace, Nestor Noudeke, Aissatou Fall, and Biagio Pedalino
, Augusto Lopez, Samantha Perkins, Stephanie Lambert, Lesley Chace, Nestor Noudeke, Aissatou Fall, and Biagio Pedalino
Table 4
Field products completed by the first 2 cohorts of FETP-Frontline participants in Côte d’Ivoire, May–December 2016*
| Field product | Total no. |
|---|---|
| Expanded weekly surveillance report | 36 |
| Topics for the problem analysis report | 17 |
| Late- reporting or underreporting of surveillance data | 6 |
| Nonapplication of case definitions | 3 |
| Poor community notification of cases | 2 |
| Inadequate local surveillance data analysis | 2 |
| Underreporting of maternal deaths | 2 |
| Other |
2 |
| Conditions identified for field investigation report | 20 |
| Suspected case of yellow fever | 6 |
| Suspected case of measles | 4 |
| Other vaccine-preventable disease | 4 |
| Gastrointestinal illness/diarrhea | 3 |
| Rabies | 2 |
| Suspected case of hemorrhagic fever | 1 |
| Cluster of acute respiratory illness | 1 |
*FETP, Field Epidemiology Training Program.
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