Surveillance

Health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data essential for planning, implementing, and evaluating public health activities, closely integrated with timely dissemination of the data to enable e...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AVIAN INFLUENZA BIRTHS BLINDNESS BULLETIN CANCER CAPACITY BUILDING CHICKENPOX CHILDHOOD CHOLERA COMMUNICABLE DISEASE COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES COMMUNICATION CHANNELS DEATH CERTIFICATES DECISION MAKING DENGUE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DIABETES DIPHTHERIA DISABILITY DISEASE DISEASE BURDEN DISEASE OUTBREAKS DISEASE PREVENTION DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE DISSEMINATION DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION DOCUMENTS DRACUNCULIASIS EARLY DETECTION EARLY IDENTIFICATION ENCEPHALITIS ENDEMIC AREAS ENDEMIC DISEASES EPIDEMIC EPIDEMICS HAZARDS HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS HEALTH IMPACT HEALTH INFORMATION HEALTH PLANNING HEALTH POLICY HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH REGULATIONS HEALTH SURVEILLANCE HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH SYSTEMS HEART DISEASE HEPATITIS HIV/AIDS HOSPITAL INFANT INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFLUENZA INJURIES INTERVENTION JOURNALISTS LABORATORIES LABORATORY LAWS LEPROSY MALARIA MATERNAL DEATHS MATERNAL MORTALITY MEASLES MENINGITIS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS MORBIDITY MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY MORTALITY MORTALITY RATE MUMPS NATIONAL CAPACITY NATIONAL LEVEL NCD NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS NOTIFIABLE DISEASES NUTRITION OBESITY ONCHOCERCIASIS PANDEMIC PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PAP SMEARS PATHOGENS PERTUSSIS PLAGUE PNEUMONIA POISONING POLIO POPULATION GROUPS PREVALENCE PREVENTABLE DISEASES PROGRESS PUBLIC HEALTH RABIES REPORTER RISK FACTORS RIVER BLINDNESS RUBELLA SCARCE RESOURCES SMOKING SYPHILIS TB TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TETANUS TREATMENT TRIGGER TRIGGERS VACCINATIONS VACCINE VITAL STATISTICS WARNING YELLOW FEVER
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/11994142/surveillance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9616

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Summary:	Health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data essential for planning, implementing, and evaluating public health activities, closely integrated with timely dissemination of the data to enable effective and efficient action to be taken to prevent and control disease. The scope of surveillance is broad, from early warning systems for rapid response in the case of communicable diseases to planned response in the case of non-communicable diseases, where the lag time between exposure and disease is longer than for communicable diseases. Most countries have laws or regulations on mandatory reporting of a list of conditions determined by each country, primarily communicable diseases such as childhood vaccine-preventable diseases (polio, measles, tetanus, and diphtheria), TB, hepatitis, meningitis, and leprosy. Relatively small investments can be very effective in reducing death, disease, and disability. Surveillance can make the health system more effective and efficient, and better able to control devastating epidemics. It can lead to early detection of local epidemics when control is more effective, less costly, and involves less loss of life. Surveillance is also important for controlling and preventing endemic diseases that reduce productivity and can be costly to manage. Good surveillance systems permit early identification of diseases such as TB and syphilis that can be cured easily with low-cost treatments, combined with other public health actions.

Surveillance

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