Characteristics of case reporting systems by region
| Number responding ‘yes’ | Total number of responses | Percentage of countries that responded ‘yes’ (%) | |
| Entity is responsible for case reporting | 15 | 15 | 100 |
| Ministry of Health | 14 | 15 | 93 |
| National Public Health Institute | 1 | 15 | 7 |
| Law exists that mandates case reporting for at least one disease | 13 | 15 | 87 |
| Case reporting data are used in country | 15 | 15 | 100 |
| Programme response | 15 | 15 | 100 |
| Diagnostics forecasting | 8 | 15 | 53 |
| Burden of disease estimates | 12 | 15 | 80 |
| Case reporting system is currently funded | 14 | 15 | 93 |
| Domestic | 12 | 14 | 86 |
| Multilateral | 10 | 14 | 71 |
| Bilateral* | 9 | 14 | 64 |
| Private sector reports newly diagnosed cases of disease using the same system | 11 | 13 | 85 |
| Case reporting system is linked to other systems | 10 | 14 | 71 |
| Patient monitoring | 8 | 10 | 80 |
| Laboratory information system | 7 | 10 | 70 |
| Vital statistics | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Unique identifiers are used for case reporting | 8 | 14 | 57 |
| National ID | 4 | 7 | 57 |
| Health ID | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| System-specific ID | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| Client demographics | 4 | 7 | 57 |
| Biometric data | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Security measures used for electronic case reporting systems | 14 | 14 | 100 |
| Physical barrier | 8 | 14 | 57 |
| Software barrier | 13 | 14 | 93 |
| Legal barrier | 5 | 14 | 36 |
| Encryption | 4 | 14 | 29 |
| Unique ID | 3 | 14 | 21 |
Missing or ‘N/A’ responses are excluded from the denominator number of responses.
*Bilateral organisations include both government agencies and non-government agencies.