Guidance

Global Strategy on Comprehensive Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance

This document is promotes the development of high-functioning surveillance systems that are:

  • Comprehensive, encompassing all vaccine-preventable disease threats faced by a country, in all geographic areas and populations, using all laboratory and other methodologies required to detect diseases reliably; and
  • Integrated, wherever possible, taking advantage of shared infrastructure for components of surveillance such as data management and laboratory systems. 

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2020

Publisher

WHO

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Programme management

Organisations

  • World Health Organisation (WHO)

Tags

  • Disease surveillance

Topic references

EPI-CORE-VPD-SURVEILLANCE

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Global framework for immunization monitoring and surveillanceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO)2007GuidanceEnglish
Global Strategy on Comprehensive Vaccine-Preventable Disease SurveillanceWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020GuidanceEnglish
Laboratory networkWorld Health Organization (WHO)1960RepositoryFrench
Vaccine Preventable Diseases Surveillance StandardsWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceRussian
WHO manual for organizing a national external quality assessment programme for health laboratories and other testing sitesWorld Health Organization (WHO)2016GuidanceEnglish