Surveillance

Share Author: Dr. Arana Public health departments at local, state, and national levels routinely use different surveillance systems. Here is an overview of some of these systems, including vital statistics, disease reporting, and surveys. There are more specialized surveillance systems, including sentinel surveillance, zoonotic disease surveillance, adverse events surveillance, syndromic surveillance, disease registries, and laboratory [...]

Share Author: Dr. Arana Surveillance systems provide the foundations on which to build successful control and prevention programs. The analysis and comparison of surveillance systems can help ensuring that these systems are collecting the right data and following appropriate procedures to obtain good data and support quality planning, dissemination of data, and implementation of population-based [...]

Share Author: Dr. Arana Historically, public health surveillance has combined two different activities: case and statistical surveillances. Case surveillance, which is focuses on individuals, or sometimes small groups of individuals, has been used for communicable diseases capable of causing great harm to the entire population if allowed to spread. In contrast, statistical surveillance uses populations to [...]