What is infectious disease surveillance? - Ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of infectious disease-related data coordinated with the timely dissemination of data to those responsible for preventing and controlling the data.
Why do surveillance for infectious disease? - - detecting...
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What is infectious disease surveillance? - Ongoing collection, analysis, and
interpretation of infectious disease-related data coordinated with the timely
dissemination of data to those responsible for preventing and controlling the data.
Why do surveillance for infectious disease? - - detecting outbreaks
- helps evaluate effectiveness of control measures
What is involved for infectious disease surveillance? - - the patient
- physician
- hospital/clinic
- county health department
- state health department
- centers for disease control and prevention in the USA
- World Health Organization
What are the two main types of surveillance? - Passive: routine reporting by
diagnostic labs to surveillance organizations
-Case reports go to state, federal health agencies
-fairly inexpensive, covers large areas
-provides critical information for monitoring disease frequency and trends
-requires a decent health care infrastructure
Active:Is done when an outbreak is in progress.
, - higher level public health agencies (county, state, federal) contact clinics for
information about specific diseases
-provides information rapidly, but is labor intensive and expensive
What is syndromic surveillance? Purpose? - A new type of passive surveillance.
Surveillance for health-related data that may precede reporting of diagnosed cases
- non-clinical data may be used
- data may be just as accurate as traditional surveillance methods
The purpose is a more rapid detection of an outbreak/bioterror event. Can also
monitor progression of a disease outbreak.
What is Global surveillance? - WHO
- provides a legal framework to require all countries to detect and contain
infectious disease outbreaks
- global rules to enhance global public health security
- has guidelines for declaring global health emergencies
How does WHO get global data? - 1. routine surveillance
2. GPHIN
3. ProMED
4. GOARN
What is GPHIN and what does it do? - Global public health information network.
1. scans global news, web
2. filtering and sorting
3. review for relevancy
Example of a Syndromic surveillance
What does ProMED do? - - Receives information from public health reports,
media, ID docs - people in the field
- Expert reviewers act as moderators
- All vetted reports are e-mailed to subscribers, posted on web
What is GOARN and what does it do? - Global Outbreak Alert and Response
Network.
- Run by WHO
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