title: Enhanced Surveillance for the Sports Festival in Tokyo 2013: Preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
abstract: Enhanced surveillance was conducted during the Sports Festival in Tokyo 2013 (September 28-October 14, 2013) for early detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases and other health emergencies. Through this enhanced surveillance, 15 cases were found that required additional gathering of information outside the routine process of creating/evaluating the Daily Report. However, none of these was assessed as critical. Through the enhanced surveillance, we structured a framework that allows for earlier response when detecting aberrations. It includes the role of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in communications and contacts with relevant parties such as public health centers, as well as in monitoring of surveillance data. However, some issues need to be further considered toward the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, such as establishing the criteria for additional response steps, increasing the number of participating bodies in syndromic surveillance, and strengthening of cooperation with related departments, including those for crisis management assuming potential biological/chemical terrorism.
authors: Medical School, Okayama University.
authors: Naotaka
authors: N
authors: Shimatani
authors: Yoshiyuki
authors: Y
authors: Sugishita
authors: Tamie
authors: T
authors: Sugawara
authors: Yuuki
authors: Y
authors: Nakamura
authors: Yasushi
authors: Y
authors: Ohkusa
authors: Takuya
authors: T
authors: Yamagishi
authors: Tamano
authors: T
authors: Matsui
authors: Masashi
authors: M
authors: Kawano
authors: Hirotoshi
authors: H
authors: Watase
authors: Yukiko
authors: Y
authors: Morikawa
authors: Kazunori
authors: K
authors: Oishi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D056352:Athletes; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013177:Sports; D014041:Tokyo / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult