Figure 1.
Guidelines provided for the media source selection process.
These general guidelines were provided at the onset of pilot implementation in each country to help the team members select the best weekly media sources for surveillance.
Figure 2.
*Data and information flow through the local media surveillance pilot.
From source selection at LMS implementation to the weekly reporting of local health events, the addition of offline and local information, especially from languages unsupported by digital surveillance networks, fill critical data gaps in global disease recognition and monitoring. *Striking image.
Table 1.
Performance characteristics of the local media surveillance (LMS) pilot by country.
Table 2.
Health events identified through local media surveillance (LMS) and HealthMap’s digital disease surveillance over the 16-week evaluation period.
Figure 3.
A geographic comparison of local media surveillance and HealthMap reports in Bangladesh during the evaluation period.
Local media surveillance contributed to overall reporting of health events, often resulting in greater geographic surveillance coverage (Map source: ArcGIS, ESRI).