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Assignment - Disease Surveillance in Public Health Discussion
Instruction - Disease surveillance is a necessary public health role. Passive surveillance relies on individuals and local authorities "pushing" information to national agencies who then compile, analyze, and disseminate the information. Unfortunately, significant gaps occur in reporting.
Review your textbook, and the CDC's National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS). Discuss the strengths of the current surveillance systems, the gaps you identified, and why these gaps occur. Discuss the global challenges of coordinating surveillance between multiple countries and provide an example highlighting the challenges. What could other governments and agencies, such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, do to strengthen global disease surveillance systems?
Read Chapters 3-5 and 18 in Gordis Epidemiology.
Read "Types of Surveillance," located on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine website.
Read "WHO Report on Global Surveillance of Epidemic-Prone Infectious Diseases - Introduction," located on the World Health Organization (WHO) website.
Explore the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) page of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
Explore Public Health Surveillance and Data page of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.