...goals? Public health surveillance can provide the needed information for answering these questions. Public health surveillance is defined as the ongoing,...systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data on specific health events for use in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health...

...AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL Epidemiologie surveillance is the ongoing systematic collections, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluations of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data...

...rapidly undertaken epidemiologic investigations may be invaluable for the medical management of victims. Public health surveillance is defined as the ongoing,...systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data on specific health events for use in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health...

...disease-specific mortality and the incidence and prevalence of communicable and sexually transmitted diseases. Public health surveillance is defined as "the ongoing,...systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data on specific health events for use in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health...

...evaluation, and they have several key characteristics (discussed in detail in Chapter 4). These include the collection, analysis, and interpretation of health...implementation, and evaluation of public health practice (Thacker and Berkelrnan 1988). These activities must be closely integrated with the timely dissemination...

...broad categories: passive surveillance and active surveillance. Surveillance, according to ANSI Z-365, is defined as: The ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health and exposure data in the process of describing and monitoring a health event. Surveillance data are...

...itself remaining apparently unchanged by the process (Hensyl, 1987). Epidemiologic surveillance— The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and...integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to persons who need to know. Epidemiology— The study of the occurrence of disease in human populations....

...effective. Risk assessment is accomplished through surveillance activities. INFECTION SURVEILLANCE Surveillance is defined as "the ongoing, systematic...of public health practice, closely integrated with timely dissemination of these data to those who need to know" (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

...Surveillance The Merriam- Webster dictionary defines surveillance as "close watch kept over something." Public health surveillance is defined as the "ongoing,...systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data, essential to the planning. implementation and evaluation of public health practice,...

...influence on the practice of college health. As the foundation of epidemiological practice, surveillance is "the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and...implementation, and evaluation of public health practice." 8 Health surveys provide one type of data that is especially valuable to health professionals. The...