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In this presentation, I would like to introduce the Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS), developed and managed by the World Health Organization (WHO), to improve disease outbreak detection in emergency settings, such as in countries in conflict or following a natural disaster, thereby reducing cases and deaths that occur during emergencies.
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As I saw in the presentation, EWARS is such a big project affected in improving world-wide public health.
There might be some cost to initiate this project, for example, cost of product development, and starter kit that cost around 15000$/set.
However, this project can be significantly helpful in preventing outbreak. That means this project can help preventing world form pandemics, significant budget loss and illness.
Thus, the project can help us in all aspects, including, cost, satisfaction, and health quality that is the most important outcome.
Thank you for sharing.
EWARS use to be the operational guide to improve disease outbreak detection. It is improving early detection and prompt response to any disease outbreak and other public health issue in the world especially in areas where there is conflict. In term of cost effectiveness, since it is implemented in acute public health alerts so they need fund provided by government sector. However, from the successful result using EWARS in many disease outbreak situation, investment in EWARS implementation seems to be worthwhile.
This eHealth project is really useful during this pandemic. It provides an early alert on disease outbreaks and can be a tool in public health data and epidemiology. It can also apply to other disasters to save people lives too
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