Communicating and monitoring surveillance and response activities for malaria elimination: China's "1-3-7" strategy

Jun Cao; Hugh J W Sturrock; Chris Cotter; Shuisen Zhou; Huayun Zhou; Yaobao Liu; Linhua Tang; Roly D Gosling; Richard G A Feachem; Qi Gao

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001642

Communicating and monitoring surveillance and response activities for malaria elimination: China's "1-3-7" strategy

PLoS Med. 2014 May 13;11(5):e1001642. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001642. eCollection 2014 May.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, China; Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, Wuxi, China; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Parasite Molecular Biology, Wuxi, China.
² Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
³ National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China.
⁴ Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, China; Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, Wuxi, China.
⁵ Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, China; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Parasite Molecular Biology, Wuxi, China.

Abstract

Qi Gao and colleagues describe China's 1-3-7 strategy for eliminating malaria: reporting of malaria cases within one day, their confirmation and investigation within three days, and the appropriate public health response to prevent further transmission within seven days.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

China / epidemiology
Disease Eradication / statistics & numerical data*
Epidemiological Monitoring*
Health Communication*
Health Plan Implementation
Humans
Malaria / epidemiology*
Malaria / prevention & control*
Research Report
Time Factors

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Jiangsu Province's Medical High Tech Platform (ZX201108), the Jiangsu Province's Construction Project (BM2009902), the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), and the Program for National S & T Major Program (No. 2012ZX10004-220) to JC, HZ, YL, and QG. HJWS and RDG are supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [#OPP1013170]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.