HRS 1017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Graunt, Electrocardiography, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
24 Jan 2020
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Key lecture concepts rationale for undertaking surveillance vital statistics. The systematic, ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data. Provide evidence to move towards disease prevention and control. Public health officials face several decisions regarding whether or not to undertake disease monitoring. Surveillance systems typically have many of the following attributes. A common form of surveillance is the use of notifiable disease surveillance to monitor infectious disease. Several diseases are required by law to be reported to public health authorities. Notifiable diseases usually are those with a high rate of communicability or a high rate of death. Another common form of surveillance in public health relies on information from the vital statistics system. In the usa, state laws require that all vital events be registered to government authorities. Proof of citizenship, age, birthplaces, and parentage. Used in burial documents and in settlement of estate and insurance claims. Arose from the need for closer observation of epidemics of plague (1361,1368,1375,1390,1406)
