Surveillance: Budi Setiawan
Surveillance: Budi Setiawan
Surveillance: Budi Setiawan
Budi setiawan
What is
Public Health Surveillance?
• The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of
health data, essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation
of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely
dissemination to those who need to know
• Surveys
– Schools, doctors, insurance companies
Adapted from: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health 101 Series. Introduction to Surveillance.
Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/instructors.html.
How Are Public Health Surveillance
Data Collected? con’t.
• Mandatory reporting
• Some diseases are required to be reported to the local and state
health departments (reportable diseases).
– Highly communicable (transmittable) diseases
• E.g., chickenpox
– High morbidity or mortality rates
• E.g., Ebola virus disease
– Strong public interest
• E.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (often referred to
as MRSA)
Public Health Surveillance
Types
• Different ways of collecting surveillance data fall into 3
categories
– Passive
– Active
– Syndromic
Passive Surveillance
• Examples
– A doctor’s office reports 2 cases of measles
– A nursing home reports an unusual number of older patients with
unexplained rashes
Active Surveillance