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Why have surveillance? |
Surveillance can -Serve asan early warning system for impending public health emergencies -document the impact of intervention or track progress toward specified goal -montier and clarify the epidemiology of health problems to allow priorities to be set |
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Passive Surveillance |
-mandated reporting certain disease cases (mostly communicable) seen in healthcare facilities -initiated healthcare provider or laboratory) -no special effort to find disease -cheap /easy to to set up at the beginning -usually detect disease in those that get sick -carriers & long incubation are undiscoverable -undercounts |
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Active Surveillance |
-Special search initiated and conducted by health department to find disease cases -data is actively collected/sought (acute event) -data collected from various sources (door to door surveys, contact of cases) -expensive |
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Sentential Surveillance |
-voluntary reporting system made of a network of health care institutions or provider -regular reports to health dept for one or more specific diseases seen at HCF -Goal is monitoring and early detection- in a catchment area |
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Real-Time Surveillance |
-alert public health care practitioners in early phases of outbreak -promptly institute case finding and control measures -improve access to treatment with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality |
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Syndromic |
surveillance using indicators of disease and injury (already existing health-related data that precedes diagnosis) and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response -google trends -school/ work absenteeism |
