New Technological And Innovative Strategies For Disease Surveillance And Control: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Background: New technological advancement in disease surveillance and control is an emerging issue globally. This is particularly associated with the improvement in public health functions including prevention, timely reporting and rapid response for infectious diseases globally.

Aim: This systematic review will examine the effectiveness of new technological advancement in disease surveillance and control through literature review.

Method:  To perform systematic review, researches published between 2019 and 2023 were included. Search was done through search engines including Google scholar, Web of Science and Scopus.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria were, researches should be in published din English, studied the effectiveness of technological advancement for disease control and surveillance. In total eight studies were included after initial screening and quality assessment out of 58,200 searched articles.

Results: In total 54 researches were found relevant based on the key words used for the search. Out of these only 08 researches were more relevant with the study scope. Findings of the systematic review revealed that technological advancement in disease prevention and control was found more effective for disease prevention, reporting and rapid response, especially for infectious diseases.

Conclusion: The study concluded that new technological advancement can bring more accuracy to modern method of treatment, would be more effective in timely reporting of pandemic or in outbreak of infectious diseases. Therefore, a more exclusive research needs to be done in developing countries too, to strengthen the more global approach towards disease prevention and surveillance.