Table 2.
Attributes of rabies surveillance.
| Attribute | Participants' favorable attitudes*/surveillance indicator | N | Percent (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplicity | Rabies surveillance was simple | 87 | 61† |
| Case definitions of human rabies were standardized‡ | 73 | 89 | |
| Monthly PEP reporting forms of rabies surveillance are easy to complete‡ | 53 | 24 | |
| Flexibility | Able to integrate rabies case notifications into the general reporting system for notifiable infectious diseases | 89 | 84 |
| Able to make transition from using the paper-based to electronic case notification systems for rabies‡ | 55 | 42 | |
| Acceptability | Deployment of rabies surveillance is acceptable at human health and animal health sectors | 115 | 84 |
| Reporting methods: monthly for PEP vaccination and casual reports for cases of human rabies | 112 | 90 | |
| Voluntary involvement in reporting rabies data | 114 | 87 | |
| Agreed with the requirement of specimen collection of human rabies cases‡ | 68 | 87 | |
| Percentage of specimens collected from human rabies cases‡ | 67 | 30 | |
| Data quality | 6-month data sharing between human health and veterinary health | 98 | 83 |
| Checking for timeliness and completeness of data | 92 | 83 | |
| Timeliness | Percentage of human rabies cases reported within 48 h after diagnosis‡ | 29 | 7 |
| Percentage of on-time reports of animal-bite victims receiving PEP‡ | 192 | 58 | |
| Usefulness | Percentage of participants who witnessed the use of surveillance data for control and prevention activities | 144 | 39† |
| Percentage of participants who witnessed the use of surveillance data for policy advocacy or programming | 145 | 21† | |
| Stability | Percentage of experience of system outrage or damage in the past month‡ | 86 | 22 |
| Percentage of continuous implementation of rabies surveillance in case of budget cuts‡ | 144 | 75 |
N indicates the number of participants or forms; PEP, post-exposure prophylaxis.
*
Participants' attitude was distinguished as favorable (score 6–10) and unfavorable (score 0–4) toward rabies surveillance.
†
Differences in attitudes between human health and animal health were statistically significant.
‡
Data were obtained only from health care workers.