Public Health Surveillance Core Activities Observed at Multiple Levels

9.5 KB of Excel data describes core activities of a public health surveillance system. Sileshi Demelash Sasie authored this dataset, which was last updated on May 21, 2026. The data likely captures observations from regional, district, health facility, and community levels.

Use Cases

• Compare surveillance activity implementation across different administrative levels based on the described regional, district, and community scope.
• Assess the completeness of core surveillance functions at health facilities based on direct observation data.
• Model the flow of surveillance information between community and higher administrative levels based on the described multi-level structure.

Strengths

• The dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• The description specifies data collection via direct observation at facilities, suggesting a primary source method.
• The dataset scope explicitly includes regional, district, health facility, and community levels.

Limitations

• The dataset is only 9.5 KB, indicating a very limited scope or number of records.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Sileshi Demelash Sasie

Collection Method

Direct observation at facilities, as stated in the description.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 17:30:14; freshness should be verified.