HSCI 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Prostate Cancer, Passive Monitoring, Disease Surveillance
2 Feb 2021
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Examples of what disease surveillance is done in canada. The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those who need to know. us- Cdc: other definitions exist, but generally core to the thinking is: Systematic collection of relevant disease data and measures: measures are chosen to provide important information to policy makers around disease control, data are reported/monitored at an appropriate frequency with a suitable dissemination strategy to advise public health policy. Surveillance systems for diseases are often described as passive or active. Passive surveillance often utilizes data on reported from diagnosing providers/services or by collating other data collected within the health system that identifies relevant disease events. Epidemiologic analysis, interpretation and dissemination of these data can occur once they are collated from sources.
