Identify your contagious illness

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Assignment:

Select any contagious illness:::: VIRAL HEPATITIS

Now, imagine you were working for your local health department and you need to set up surveillance for a local elementary school which has approximately 500 students.

1. Identify your contagious illness.

2. Describe the factors that make it contagious and describe the symptoms.

3. What would you want to consider when thinking about setting up your surveillance system?

4. Which surveillance system would be best to use -- passive, active, rumor, syndromic, and sentinel.

5. Would you use GIS to help?

6. Who are your risk groups?

7. How would you in theory set it up, what would you look for? (This is your implementation plan).

8. How will you communicate the presence of this illness in the school to parents?

9. What will be included in this communication?

10. Share this information with your classmates within the discussion thread.

YOU COULD USE THE CDC website and any other information relating to public health surveillance. This is more of a theory and what would be "ideal".

Since many of you have children in school, you may have experience in how your child's school handled surveillance for a contagious illness.

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