Introduction to public health surveillance by CDC
1) A public health approach there are four general steps surveillance risk factor identification intervention evaluation and implementation. Surveillance- what is the problem? Risk factor identification- what is the cause? Intervention evaluation-what works? Implementation- How do you do it?
2) Public health core sciences. Prevention effectiveness, epidemiology, surveillance, informatics, and laboratory.
3) Describe the goals of public health surveillance. The main goals are monitoring health trends, guiding public health policies and strategies, evaluating public health interventions.
4) Describe the uses of public health surveillance. Disease detection and monitoring, outbreak response, policy making, program evaluation, resource allocation, health promotion and research.
5) Compare active and passive public health surveillance. Active surveillance public health officials actively seek out information by visiting healthcare facilities, reviewing medical records, and calling healthcare providers. Passive surveillance relies on healthcare providers and institutions to report cases of disease and health conditions to the public health authorities. Less accurate but cost effective.
6) Describe the process of public health surveillance. Detection, registration, confirmation, reporting, and analysis and feedback.
7) What is public health surveillance? It is the continuous systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health related data.
