This article explains how making a disease notifiable by law is a core component of a robust and well-functioning health system. Mechanisms to rapidly detect and report existing or emerging infectious diseases in a timely manner are key to disease control and elimination. Using malaria in Asia-Pacific as a case in point, we explore different policy considerations involved in making malaria a notifiable disease. These include the timing of legislative changes at different stages of elimination, investing in adequate infrastructure for a robust surveillance system that can support targeted interventions, and the importance of involving all sectors in the delivery of malaria services to detect, report and respond to every case. The article explains how frameworks to report on notifiable diseases, in this case malaria, contribute to improved regional health security.

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法定疾病：检测和治疗每个病例以领先于曲线

本文解释了如何通过法律通知疾病是强大且运转良好的卫生系统的核心组成部分。及时快速发现和报告现有或新发传染病的机制是控制和消除疾病的关键。我们以亚太地区的疟疾为例，探讨了使疟疾成为应通报疾病所涉及的不同政策考虑因素。这些包括在消除的不同阶段改变立法的时间，投资于足够的基础设施以建立一个强大的监测系统，以支持有针对性的干预措施，以及让所有部门参与提供疟疾服务以检测、报告和应对每个病例​​的重要性. 这篇文章解释了报告法定疾病的框架如何，在这种情况下是疟疾，