Home / Business & Management / Big Data & Analytics / Collecting and Using Data for Disease Control and Global Health Decision-Making / Importance of incentives: lessons learned from Bangladesh
Importance of incentives: lessons learned from Bangladesh
Read about lessons learned for strategies for excellent surveillance from smallpox eradication in Bangladesh (Step 2.16).
© Global Polio Eradication Initiative
Please take some time to review the reading Smallpox Eradication in Bangladesh, 1972-1976
Now review this chart from slide 4 of the lecture which shows the impact of increasing rewards for reported cases of smallpox in Bangladesh: 
Are there other diseases for which such a system could be effective? What lessons can you learn from the smallpox eradication in Bangladesh that you can apply to your own work or educational context?
Please share you thoughts in the discussion.
© Copyright @ 2020 Johns Hopkins University. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
This article is from the online course:
Collecting and Using Data for Disease Control and Global Health Decision-Making
Created by
This article is from the free online
Collecting and Using Data for Disease Control and Global Health Decision-Making
