- Experts want better integrated surveillance systems.
- These systems should join different types of health data.
- Outbreaks often start in local villages and towns.
- Surveillance must work where people live and work.
- Communities need clear information they can trust and use.
- Right now many data are kept separately and hidden.
- Experts want systems that help fast coordinated action.
- They also ask for more money and training for communities.
- Ecological and farming issues must be included too.
- Better systems can protect people, animals and plants.
Difficult words
- surveillance — system to watch for health problems
- integrated — joined together into one system
- outbreak — sudden disease cases in a placeOutbreaks
- community — people living in the same placeCommunities
- coordinated — working together at the same time
- ecological — relating to nature and the environment
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