title: Communicable Disease Reporting Systems in the World: A Systematic Review Article.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Communicable disease reporting and surveillance system has poor infrastructure and supporters in most of countries. Its quality improvement is a challenge and requires an accurate and efficient care and reporting systems at all levels to achieve new and simple models. This study evaluates reporting systems of communicable diseases using systematic review.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a systematic review study. For data collection, we used the following database and search engines: Proquest, Science direct, Pub MED, Scopes, Springer, and EBESCO. For Persian databases, we used SID, Iranmedex and Magiran. Our key words were "Communicable Diseases", "Notifiable Disease", "Disease Notification", "Reporting System"," Surveillance Systems" and "evaluation". Two independent researchers reviewed the resources and the results were classified in different domains.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From 1889 cases, only 66 resources were studied. The results were classified in several domains, including those who were reporting, reporting methods and procedures, responsibilities and reporting system characteristics, problems and solutions of the report, the reporting process, and receptor level.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Disease-reporting system has similar problems in all parts of the world. Change, improve, update and continuous monitoring of the reporting system are very important. Although the reporting process can vary in different regions, but being perfect and timely are important principles in system design. Detailed explanations of tasks and providing appropriate instructions are the most important points to integrate an efficient reporting system.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Health Services Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tbriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Janati
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Health Services Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tbriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mozhgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosseiny
authors.affiliation: Center for Communicable Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Mehdi
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Gouya
authors.affiliation: Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
authors.forename: Ghobad
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moradi
authors.affiliation: Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
authors.forename: Ebrahim
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ghaderi
keywords: Disease control; Diseases surveillance system; Reporting