Birth Defect Surveillance Program PDF Download

The goal of this course is to provide participants with the foundational skills needed to begin the development implementation and ongoing improvement of a congenital anomalies surveillance programme in particular for countries with limited resources. It focuses on the methodology needed to develop either population-based or hospitalbased surveillance programmes. A set of congenital anomalies will be used as examples throughout this course. The specific examples used are typically severe enough that they would probably be captured within the first few days after birth have a significant public health impact and for some of them have the potential for primary prevention. Target audience This course is designed for individuals who are directly involved in the development implementation and daily activities related to congenital anomalies surveillance programmes in their countries and who will directly teach others. Learning objectives By the end of this course participants will be able to: 1. describe how to use data for the development of prevention campaigns and policy/programme evaluation; 2. describe how to best present data to policy-makers; 3. identify selected major external congenital anomalies for monitoring; 4. describe the tools needed to ascertain and code congenital anomalies; 5. describe the processes for managing and analysing data; 6. demonstrate how to calculate the birth prevalence of congenital anomalies.