Public health surveillance is the systematic, ongoing assessment of the health of a community, based on the collection, interpretation, and use of health data. Surveillance provides information necessary for public health decision making. This text presents an organized approach to planning, developing, and implementing public health surveillance systems. It has a broad scope, discussing legal and ethical issues as well as technical problems. It goes beyond the surveillance of particular conditions to the basic elements common to the application of surveillance to any type of health-related problem. The Second Edition has been updated throughout and many chapters have been expanded. Several new chapters have been added on the changing healthcare information infrastructure, quality surveillance, pharmaceutical surveillance, and the use of surveillance information in marketing and advocacy. The standard text in this field, it will continue to serve as a textbook for public health students and a desk reference for public health practitioners.
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"This book brings together the theoretical and practical information crucial to 'planning, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating surveillance information in the context of contemporary society and public health practice.' Nearly all the contributors are former or currently epidemiology specialists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the 13 chapters of the book systematically cover the subject....The volume not only discusses system design and data interpretation but also includes chapters on ethical and legal issues, computerized surveillance, and questions particular surveillance in developing countries." --American Journal of Public Health
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Steven M. Teutsch is at Merck and Co., Inc.. R. Elliot Churchill is at Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control.
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This text book is an excellent reference for epidemiologists and health professionals who need to establish surveillance systems. The text book takes the beginner by the hand and explains what to do (what are the essential tasks required to decide, what data do you need to collect, and what for what specific purpose you might use it) and how to do it (steps to take and considerations in management of systems and quality control) and how to make sense of the data you've collected (data analyses).
Not only is this text for beginners, but also for seasoned epidemiologists and other health professionals who are branching out into disease surveillance. I endorse it wholeheartedly.
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The definition for public health surveillance most often used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) is "the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome-specific data for use in the planning, implementations, and evaluation of public health practice" (1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The definition for public health surveillance most often used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) is "the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome-specific data for use in the planning, implementations, and evaluation of public health practice" (1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
public health surveillance activities, surveillance practitioners, public health information infrastructure, public health information systems, public health surveillance data, national notifiable diseases surveillance system, surveillance information system, public health informatics, evaluating surveillance systems, administrative claims data, public health surveillance systems, sentinel sites, new safety information, disease control activities, surveillance findings, laboratory diagnostic methods, protected health information, public health staff, quality surveillance, core data elements, health information privacy, sentinel surveillance system, public health action, health jurisdiction, safety surveillance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Epi Info, Oxford University Press, Department of Health, Prev Med, World Health Organization, Division of International Health, John Wiley, Clin Epidemiol, National Committee, Pub Health, National Academy Press, Communicable Disease Center, Med Care, Peter Nsubuga, Soc Sci Med, Allocation of Health-Care Resources, Bureau of the Census, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Eradication of Malaria, Government Printing Office, Pinellas County, Qual Improv, Reduction of Maternal Mortality New!
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- The Future of Public Health by Institute of Medicine on page 254
- Encyclopedia of Associations International (Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations) by Gale Group on page 213
- Oxford Textbook of Public Health (3-Volume Set) by Roger Detels on page 73
- The Information Infrastructure by Harvard Business School Press on page 93
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- Applied Epidemiology: Theory to Practice by Ross C. Brownson on 4 pages
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- Evidence-Based Public Health by Ross C. Brownson on page 120, and page 121
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