Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CALABARZON) is a English group. Having alot of group type in Facebook: close, open and secret and it is a CLOSED group. There are 118 participants in that group. So it is a Tiny group. You can find this group by searching 432969100106223 on Google, Bing or Yahoo. Last update is on 2015-02-27 05:10:48.
Disease Surveillance Coordinators (DSC)
Disease Surveillance Coordinators are staff of government and non-government health facilities (hospitals, private clinics, RHUs) officially designated as disease surveillance coordinator by the head of the facility and are trained on PIDSR.
The roles of DSCs are the following:
- Notify the next higher level case/s of disease/syndrome/event classified as “immediate notification” within 24 hours of detection.
- Notify the next higher level of suspect epidemics within 24 hours of detection and perform preliminary investigation.
- Conduct preliminary investigation of suspect epidemics in their respective areas.
- Assist in epidemic investigation conducted by PESUs, RESUs or NEC.
- Record in the Weekly Notifiable Disease Report (WNDR) all cases of notifiable diseases admitted in the hospital/clinic or seen in the community/ RHU/CHO.
- Submit PIDSR report forms to the next higher level. Retain a copy of PIDSR forms and perform regular basic data analysis (time, place, and person).
- Prepare and disseminate weekly/monthly disease surveillance reports.
- Participate in workshops, seminars, training, scientific meetings and other surveillance-related activities.
Disease Surveillance Officers (DSO)
Disease Surveillance Officers are fulltime staff of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (ESU) of the CHOs (chartered cities), PHOs and CHDs who has received training on basic epidemiology, public health surveillance and PIDSR; and, are officially designated as Disease Surveillance Officer by the head of office. Ideally a DSO should either be a physician or a nurse.
The roles of DSOs are the following:
- The DSO shall be responsible in the collection of PIDSR forms from the hospitals at their level (levels: 1 –clinics or infirmaries; 2 –primary hospitals; 3 –secondary hospitals and 4 –tertiary hospitals). However, hospital DSC and provincial DSO may agree on other means of submission or collection of PIDSR appropriate to their local condition.
- Encode data into the computer and maintain a file of the case investigation forms.
- Consolidate data from the different DRUs for weekly submission to the next higher level.
- Analyze and Interpret data to provide weekly and/or monthly disease surveillance report to the next higher level.
- Provide technical assistance in outbreak investigations and response to their respective DRUs when necessary.
- Disease Surveillance Officers (DSO) at the Provincial or Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Units shall provide technical assistance to DSCs on safe collection, storage and transport of laboratory specimens for confirmatory testing. Laboratory results should be provided to the clinical staff and the patient.
- Conduct regular monitoring and assessment of DRUs to determine AND verify “silent” DRUs.
- Conduct regular technical assistance visits of DRUs with the epidemiologist.
- Manage logistics needed in the surveillance operations at their level.