Waterborne disease anticipatory action (AA) plans focus entirely on reducing health impacts and rely heavily on surveillance systems.
Globally, government agencies have developed elaborate surveillance and control measures to combat the spread of waterborne disease, and disease-driven approaches make use of these surveillance systems.
Given that cholera and childhood diarrhea do have spatial-temporal spikes, the potential for AA to anticipate and reduce those spikes is large.
This publication excerpt provides evidence on health outcomes of AA for waterborne diseases, along with examples of active AA frameworks in Bangladesh and Democratic Republic of the Congo using the 4Ms (Model, Mandate, Method, Means) framework.
This is one of five case studies from the report, Landscape of Anticipatory Action for Health in a Changing Climate. Other topic areas covered are:
