‘Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India’:

Question 1

What is it?

Answer 1

To make India’s public health surveillance system more responsive and predictive to enhance preparedness for action at all levels.

Citizen-friendly public health surveillance system will ensure individual privacy and confidentiality, enabled with a client feedback mechanism.

Improved data-sharing mechanism between Centre and states for better disease detection, prevention, and control.

India aims to provide regional and global leadership in managing events that constitute a public health emergency of international concern.

Question 2

Focus of the paper and Significance?

Answer 2

contributes by suggesting mainstreaming of surveillance by making individual electronic health records the basis for surveillance.

spells out the need for expanded referral networks and enhanced laboratory capacity.

Question 3

building blocks for this vision are?

Answer 3

interdependent federated system of governance between the Centre and states,

a new data-sharing mechanism that involves the use of new analytics,

health informatics,

Data science including innovative ways of disseminating ‘information for action