Public health surveillance in the united states

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Discuss the adequacies or inadequacies of the current system of public health surveillance in the United States.

What would you identify as areas that need immediate address and in what areas is the United States exemplary?

"Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data about a health-related event for use in the public health action to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve health." (CDC, 2004)

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