The Necessity of Revising Communicable Disease Surveillance Programs in the World: Lessons from COVID-19 for Decision Makers

Nilowfar Salighehdar-Iran; Habibeh Matin; Hamid Jafaralilou; Rahim Aali

doi:10.5812/hmj.107169

Hormozgan medical journal. 2020;24(4): 107169.
doi: 10.5812/hmj.107169

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The Necessity of Revising Communicable Disease Surveillance Programs in the World: Lessons from COVID-19 for Decision Makers

Nilowfar Salighehdar-Iran ¹ , Habibeh Matin ², Hamid Jafaralilou ³, Rahim Aali ⁴^*

¹ Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
² Department of Health Sciences, Khoy Faculty of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran
³ Health Education and Promotion, Khoy Faculty of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran
⁴ Research Center for Environmental Pollutants, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran

Corresponding author: Assistance Professor, Research Center for Environmental Pollutants, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran. Email: r.aali@muq.ac.ir

Keywords: Communicable Disease, COVID-19, Non Communicable Disease, Decision Makers