Evaluation of community based surveillance in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2019.
Elburg van BoetzelaerSamiur ChowdhuryBerhe EtsayAbu FaruqueAnnick LengletAnna KuehneAntonio Isidro Carrion MartinPatrick KeatingMartins DadaJorieke VynckeDonald Sonne KazunguMaria VerdecchiaPublished in: PloS one (2020)
The CBS allowed for timely response but was resource intensive. Disease trends identified by the health facility surveillance and suspected diseases trends identified by CBS were similar, which might indicate limited additional value of the CBS in a dense and stable setting such as Cox's Bazar. Instead, a passive community-event-based surveillance mechanism combined with health facility-based surveillance could be more appropriate.