Guidance
Overview: Vaccine Preventable Diseases Surveillance Standards
This document provides World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended standards for conducting surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). VPD surveillance provides vital information to help countries understand disease burden and epidemiology to inform vaccine policy and strategy. There are several reasons WHO is updating the VPD surveillance standards at this time. WHO published the last set of surveillance standards in 2003 and included 13 VPDs, with the standards for Japanese encephalitis updated in 2008.
Authors
Languages
- English
- Russian
Publication year
2017
Publisher
WHO
Type
Guidance
Categories
- Vaccines & delivery devices
Organisations
- World Health Organization (WHO)
EPI-CORE-VPD-SURVEILLANCE
| Title | Author | Year | Type | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global Strategy on Comprehensive Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2020 | Guidance | English |
| WHO manual for organizing a national external quality assessment programme for health laboratories and other testing sites | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2016 | Guidance | English |
| Global framework for immunization monitoring and surveillance | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) | 2007 | Guidance | English |
| Overview: Vaccine Preventable Diseases Surveillance Standards | World Health Organization (WHO) | 2017 | Guidance | English, Russian |
