Ronetta Lewis
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Week 3 Assignment
1. a. vital events: deaths, marriages, divorces, births, and fetal deaths
b. public health surveillance: continuous gathering of information about disease occurrence and other health phenomena
c. syndromic surveillance: using health-related data to warrant a public health response if there’s a sufficient probability of a case
d. reportable and notifiable diseases: physicians and other health care providers must report cases of certain diseases
e. registry: centralized database for collection of disease information
2. You might obtain epidemiologic data from Web sites such as www.google.com, www.cdc.gov, www.nlm.nih.gov, www.apha.org, www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm, or www.epiresearch.org.
3. The vital registration …show more content…
The general purpose of surveillance systems is to monitor, gather, and collect data to warn the public of any potential serious outbreaks or cases. It serves to promote public safety in the end. The components include: occurrence of health-related event, case confirmation, reporting sources, data recipients, and audiences. Limitations of data from surveillance systems include: confidentiality (can’t name a person), under reporting (simple human errors can be made), some people refuse to visit the hospital for their illnesses (while others aren’t aware of what they may have), and misclassifications of diseases.
5. The BRFSS monitors behavior risk factors associated with chronic diseases. It also operates on the state level, so it’s hard to analyze at smaller levels of aggregation. On the other hand, a surveillance system for infectious diseases focuses on preventing the spread of diseases.
6. One of the major applications of case registries is to determine patterns of diseases over time in various populations.
7. The NCHS operates programs such as NHANES, which focuses on the nutritional status of people in the U.S. The NHIS, which relies on interviews to collect data (i.e. access to care, functioning, injuries, etc.) from noninstitutionalized individuals in the U.S. Lastly, the VSCP gathers information about marriages, deaths, births, etc.
8. a. maternal mortality rate: number of childbirth-related deaths divided by the number of live births
b. infant mortality: death of a child under a year of
HSC4500
Week 3 Assignment
1. a. vital events: deaths, marriages, divorces, births, and fetal deaths
b. public health surveillance: continuous gathering of information about disease occurrence and other health phenomena
c. syndromic surveillance: using health-related data to warrant a public health response if there’s a sufficient probability of a case
d. reportable and notifiable diseases: physicians and other health care providers must report cases of certain diseases
e. registry: centralized database for collection of disease information
2. You might obtain epidemiologic data from Web sites such as www.google.com, www.cdc.gov, www.nlm.nih.gov, www.apha.org, www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm, or www.epiresearch.org.
3. The vital registration …show more content…
The general purpose of surveillance systems is to monitor, gather, and collect data to warn the public of any potential serious outbreaks or cases. It serves to promote public safety in the end. The components include: occurrence of health-related event, case confirmation, reporting sources, data recipients, and audiences. Limitations of data from surveillance systems include: confidentiality (can’t name a person), under reporting (simple human errors can be made), some people refuse to visit the hospital for their illnesses (while others aren’t aware of what they may have), and misclassifications of diseases.
5. The BRFSS monitors behavior risk factors associated with chronic diseases. It also operates on the state level, so it’s hard to analyze at smaller levels of aggregation. On the other hand, a surveillance system for infectious diseases focuses on preventing the spread of diseases.
6. One of the major applications of case registries is to determine patterns of diseases over time in various populations.
7. The NCHS operates programs such as NHANES, which focuses on the nutritional status of people in the U.S. The NHIS, which relies on interviews to collect data (i.e. access to care, functioning, injuries, etc.) from noninstitutionalized individuals in the U.S. Lastly, the VSCP gathers information about marriages, deaths, births, etc.
8. a. maternal mortality rate: number of childbirth-related deaths divided by the number of live births
b. infant mortality: death of a child under a year of