System features

Strengths

Limitations

Opportunities for development

Early

Timely Regular Reliable Acceptable Understandable Meaningful Interpretable Adaptable based on user and stakeholder feedback

Unidirectional No traceability Unsustainable Limited data dissemination Limited ability for stakeholders and users to access and view data

Incorporation of diagnostic laboratory data

Warning

Detailed information on individual cases Supplemented the diagnostic hierarchy Documented other health-related events

Disconnect between the level of the FVS and the diagnostic laboratories

Calculation of population- and farm-level rates Incorporation of environmental data

Risk

Provided case location data Inventoried historical trends on syndromes and endemic disease Collection and integration of local knowledge from FVSs

Limited local analytic capacity Limited ability to collect and integrate local knowledge from farmers

Collection and integration of agricultural and human census data, animal locations and movements Analysis of data from multiple sources

The table describes the Infectious Disease Surveillance and Analysis System as it was implemented in Sri Lanka in terms of its strengths, limitations, and opportunities for development
Table 5: Proposed system features of the emerging infectious disease intelligence framework and the Infectious Disease Surveillance and Analysis System in Sri Lanka.