المملكة: "protection": Difficulty in integrating national platforms slows down the speed of response to public health risks

Revealed Public Health Authority “Prevention" The difficulty of effective integration with other national and institutional platforms represents the most prominent obstacle facing building a sustainable national disease monitoring system, stressing that this challenge directly affects the speed of response to public health risks.

The Authority explained in a recent report that the difficulty of obtaining Accurate and timely health data negatively affects the quality of statistics, which in turn affects the accuracy of recommendations and decisions taken to protect society, which intersects with the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 in the quality of life axis.

The importance of financial support and data exchange

She stressed “Prevention" It stressed the pivotal importance of continuing financial support to ensure investment in digital infrastructure, and financing projects and national surveys.
It stressed that the need has become urgent to attract cadres specialized in data science and statistics, to keep pace with the continuous expansion of monitoring tasks and responsibilities.

To overcome these obstacles, the report pointed out that activating partnership agreements and exchanging data between concerned parties constitutes an essential step to improve the efficiency of the system, calling for the necessity of providing a secure national platform for data and developing an integrated strategy for managing public health data.
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She confirmed, “Prevention.”" The success of implementing this strategy depends on institutional support and effective cooperation between all partners, noting that promoting and sustaining public health is a shared national responsibility in which the roles of more than 13 major government agencies are integrated, including the ministries of health, finance, and communications, and the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)."And the General Authority for Statistics.

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