Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance system performance in Jordan, 2012-2016: a teaching case-study

Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance system performance in Jordan, 2012-2016: a teaching case-study

Fatima Zerriouh^1,&, Yousef Khader², Nabil Sabri³, Kamel Abusal³, Ibrahim Iblan⁴, Layla Ghaffari³, Mohammed Abdallat⁵, Malak Shaheen⁶

 

¹Jordan Field Epidemiology Training Program, Community Medicine Residency Program, Ministry of Health, Jordan, ²Department of Community Medicine, Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Jordan, ³Expanded Program on Immunization, Communicable Diseases Directorate, Ministry of Health, Jordan, ⁴Jordan Field Epidemiology Training Program, Ministry of Health, Jordan, ⁵Communicable diseases Directorate, MoH, Jordan, ⁶Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

 

 

^&Corresponding author
Fatima Zerriouh, Jordan Field Epidemiology Training Program, Community Medicine Residency Program, Ministry of Health, Jordan

 

 

 

 

General instructions: this case study should be used as adjunct training material for novice epidemiology trainees to reinforce the concepts taught in prior lectures. The case study is ideally taught by a facilitator in groups of about 20 participants. Participants are to take turns reading the case study, usually a paragraph per student. The facilitator guides the discussion on possible responses to questions. The facilitator may make use of flip charts to illustrate certain points. Additional instructor’s notes for facilitation are coupled with each question in the instructor’s guide to aid facilitation.

 

Audience: this case study was developed for novice field epidemiology students. These participants are commonly health care workers working in the country departments of health whose background may be as medical doctors, nurses, environmental health officers or laboratory scientists who work in public health-related fields. Most have a health science or biology background.

 

Prerequisites: before using this case study, participants should have received lectures on AFP surveillance and WHO performance indicators for AFP surveillance.

 

Materials needed: Flash drive, flip charts, markers, computers with MS Excel

 

Level of training and associated public health activity: Novice – Evaluation of surveillance system

 

Time required: 3-4 hours

 

Language: English

 

 

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The authors declare no competing interests.

 

 

The authors would like to acknowledge the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), Jordan Field Epidemiology Training Program (JFETP), all the staff from the Department of Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI-Jordan) and all facilitators of the regional case-study design and development workshop, who provided valuable technical contributions to this case-study.

 

 

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2. WHO. Recommended standards for surveillance of selected vaccine preventable diseases: Vaccines and Biologicals. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2003; pp 31-34.