Cross border infection surveillance in mobile European population-GeoSentinel and more

摘要

The flow of migrants and refugees throughout Europe is governed by complex geopolitical and social factors. More than 800,000 asylum applications have been filed and numbers are growing. Some processes are in place for screening migrants for infectious disease (ID) at the point of arrival but on-going, cross border ID surveillance remains an important challenge. This presentation proposes a matrix approach to sustained surveillance of migration related infection. It suggests the use of existing surveillance systems such as GeoSentinel and the European subnetwork of GeoSentinel sites, EuroTravNet.