POPM 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: World Health Organization, Disease Surveillance, Public Health Surveillance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Population Medicine
• Course: POPM 3240
• Professor: Matthew Little

Document Summary

Surveillance is a fundamental role of public health. Public health surveillance is the actual system(s) that put in place to gather information about disease occurrence within a population. May be carried out to monitor changes in disease frequency or in levels of risk factors. Most frequently conducted for infectious diseases: but has become increasingly important in monitoring changes in other conditions: Also used to monitor for completeness of vaccination coverage and protection of a population: and for prevalence of drug-resistant organisms. Definitions of disease surveillance: centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) The overarching purpose of surveillance is to generate information and knowledge for public health action in the short and long term: world heath organization (who) (cid:862)the (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uous, syste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) (cid:272)olle(cid:272)tio(cid:374), a(cid:374)alysis a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)etatio(cid:374) of health-related data (cid:374)eeded fo(cid:396) the pla(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, i(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)aluatio(cid:374) of pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) health p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e(cid:863: *are commonalities amongst the three definitions. Provides decision makers with the best strategies for programs for disease prevention and control.