HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Absenteeism, Telehealth, Case Report
7 Jul 2018
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Week 5: surveillance and the role of data in public health. Active surveillance: active case finding and record review by public health authorities: often initiated as a component of outbreak investigations or when there is an indication that something unusual is occurring, resource intensive, ex. Mumps cases jumps to 17 people all with links to bars in west downtown. Sentinel surveillance: repeated testing or monitoring of groups of people or animals or environmental samples: resource intensive, may be used for emerging infectious diseases and non-reportable diseases of public health importance. International, canada has voluntary obligation under international health regulations to report to the world health organization any event that may constitute a public health emergency of international concern. Public health functions of surveillance: (cid:862)eyes a(cid:374)d ears(cid:863) of pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) health syste(cid:373) The use of online media sources and other digital technologies has reduced he time to detect new infectious disease outbreaks.
