HLSC 3473U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Notifiable Disease
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Module 3 identification of patients with complex chronic conditions. Surveillance is systematic, ongoing, collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health-related data that is closely linked to public health practice. Regardless of the type of disease that we are dealing with, acute or chronic, we take the same approach using four general steps. Using surveillance systems to monitor the events among a population. Look at what has worked in the past. Epidemiology determines where the disease originates, how and why it moves through populations. Informatics collecting and presenting health information, enables us to use electric data effectively when addressing a public health situation. The physician or other healthcare providers make the report by making reportable disease list in the state/province. Used during an outbreak or special time-limited events. Health events reported by health professionals that are selected to represent a geographic area. Focuses on a case definition syndromes that classify a disease.
