Annex 1 - Tools for a surveillance review: Vaccine Preventable Diseases Surveillance Standards

Overview

As part of the national desk review, VPD surveillance should be assessed to understand the diseases under surveillance and to identify which need more in-depth review, either as part of the EPI Review or as part of a separate review. The following is an example of a tool that can be modified to organize the desk review. Many aspects of a surveillance system can be investigated, but in an integrated review the key objectives are to evaluate functionality, timeliness, representativeness, sensitivity, data quality and sustainability.

The most commonly reviewed disease surveillance systems have been added. Findings from this tool should inform site selection and development of the final assessment tool for the review. This tool can be filled out by talking to surveillance focal points in the country and reviewing subnational/ national/site-specific surveillance data.