Disease surveillance

Question 1

Surveillance

Answer 1

analyzing disease trends and collecting data for the purposes of taking action

Question 2

Monitoring

Answer 2

Routine observations of a population WITHOUT predefined action in place

serves as the basis for development of a disease program

Question 3

Purposes of surveillance

Answer 3

• detect disease or infection
• monitor disease trends
• facilitate the control of disease or infection
• support claims of freedom from disease or infection
• provide data for use in risk analysis
• provide data for use in rationale for sanitary measures

Question 4

Passive Surveillance

Answer 4

continuous data on current clinically effected cases by using routinally collected data
* producer/practitioner reporting
* ID certain clinical signs and report them before a specific disease is confirmed

Question 5

Syndromic Surveillance

Answer 5

passive surveillance in which the goal is to ID and report potential cases as early as possible by identification of clinical signs and put measures in to place to prevent spread before a diagnosis has even been confirmed

Question 6

Active Surveillance

Answer 6

mass screening of clinically normal animals in effort to ID carriers and individuals that are subclinically infected

strategic targeting of high-risk populations

Question 7

Hierarchial Surveillance

Answer 7

• utilizes differing intensities of testing or sample collection depending on the perceived risk or threat

should target groups at high risk of disease

Question 8

Sentinel Surveillance

Answer 8

reporting of health events by health professionals who are selected to represent a geographic area or specific reporting group

Question 9

Any plan that will affect whether or not disease exists in a population begins with what?

Answer 9

Surveillance – need to find the disease faster than it is able to spread through a population

Question 10

Effective surveillance must…

Answer 10

• be ongoing
• utilize multiple methods