Surveillance of Disease: Overview

This article discusses the role and methodology of disease surveillance, which provides epidemiological data to formulate actions to control or eliminate disease hazard, one of the indispensable systems in national and global public health intelligence services. The target diseases include not only...

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Autores principales: Arita, I., Nakane, M., Nakano, T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149974/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00197-0
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spelling pubmed-71499742020-04-13 Surveillance of Disease: Overview Arita, I. Nakane, M. Nakano, T. International Encyclopedia of Public Health Article This article discusses the role and methodology of disease surveillance, which provides epidemiological data to formulate actions to control or eliminate disease hazard, one of the indispensable systems in national and global public health intelligence services. The target diseases include not only infectious diseases but also noncommunicable diseases as well as accidents and injuries. Efficacy is increasing with ever-newer diagnostic technology as well as expanding information technology. A few experiences in how surveillance has played an essential role in disease control are illustrated. 2008 2008-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7149974/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00197-0 Text en Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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