Surveillance as a foundation for Disease prevention and control
Oladele Justus, Ghassan Salibi, Nikolaos Tzenios
Abstract
Public Health definition: Public health surveillance is 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 of these data to those who need to know. It is a system for organized and quick collection, analysis, and distribution of medical information to instigate rapid action.
Topics & Concepts
Public healthFoundation (evidence)Data collectionDisease controlControl (management)Disease surveillanceAction (physics)Public relationsPublic health surveillanceInterpretation (philosophy)Political sciencePublic administrationBusinessMedicineEnvironmental healthComputer scienceNursingSociologyLawQuantum mechanicsSocial scienceArtificial intelligenceProgramming languagePhysicsPublic Health Policies and Education