在南非开发一个综合的市政环境卫生框架,用于传染病监测和预防:一种混合方法的研究协议
Ledile Francina Malebana1, Maasago Mercy Sepadi1, Matlou Ingrid Mokgobu2
1Environmental Health Department, Faculty of Science, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria 0183, South Africa.
Tropical medicine and infectious disease
|February 26, 2026
概括
南非的环境卫生从业者需要一个更强大的框架来打击传染病. 本研究旨在开发一个主动监测和预防的综合系统,改善公共卫生结果.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 传染病在南非构成了重大公共卫生挑战,由环境因素和分散的监测加剧.
- 环境卫生从业人员 (EHPs) 在市级负责传染病监测和预防,但这种功能往往是反应性和整合不良的.
- 现有系统缺乏一致的运行和整合到国家监测网络中,阻碍了有效的疾病控制.
研究的目的:
- 制定一个实用的框架,在南非的环境卫生服务中加强传染病监测和预防.
- 评估当前的工具,实践和协作,以支持大都会和地区市政当局的监视.
- 加强将市政环境卫生监测纳入更广泛的国家系统.
主要方法:
- 一种混合方法的方法,将EHP的国家定量调查与关键信息人采访,焦点小组和文档审查的定性数据相结合.
- 通过对环境卫生从业人员的全国调查收集定量数据.
- 通过采访国家利益相关者,聚焦小组与市卫生管理人员以及审查市政文件来生成定性数据.
主要成果:
- 研究协议概述了一项混合方法调查,以开发一个实际的框架.
- 将使用描述性和推断性统计数据分析定量数据.
- 定性数据将经过主题分析和跨数据源的三角分析.
结论:
- 预期的结果是一个综合框架,以澄清角色,改善数据流,并促进主动,协调的传染病监测和预防.
- 该框架预计将为政策提供信息,并为可持续发展目标3的目标3.3做出贡献.
- 加强市政监督和预防是减少传染病负担的关键.
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