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Introduction to Surveillance Flashcards

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What is public health surveillance?

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What are the public health surveillance keywords?

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What is the goal of public health surveillance?

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What are the uses of public health surveillance? (7)

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Give examples of public health headlines:

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Identify the surveillance uses that cane linked to the New York Times E. coli article.

A. Measure trends of a particular disease
B. Estimate the magnitude of the problem
C. Monitor changes in infectious and environmental agents
D. Assess effectiveness of programs and control measures
E. All of the above

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E

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What are examples of legal authority for conducting public health surveillance? (2)

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What are some State-based notifiable disease surveillance systems? (5)

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C

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What is the difference between passive surveillance and active surveillance? (3 x 3)

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What is sentinel surveillance?

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

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What is syndromic surveillance?

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Focuses on more or more symptoms rather than a physician-diagnosed or laboratory-confirmed disease.

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: usefulness
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How useful is the system in accomplishing its objectives?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: data quality
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How reliable are the available data? How complete and accurate are data fields in the reports received by the system?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: timeliness
Question it answers:

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How quickly are reports received?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: flexibility
Question it answers:

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How quickly can the system adapt to changes?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: simplicity
Question it answers:

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How easy is the system’s operation?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: stability
Question it answers:

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Does the surveillance system work well? Does it break down often?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: sensitivity
Question it answers:

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How well does it capture the intended cases?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: predictive value positive
Question it answers:

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How many of the reported cases meet the case definition?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: representativeness
Question it answers:

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How good is the system at representing the population under surveillance?

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Surveillance system attributes:
Attribute: acceptability
Question it answers:

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How easy is the system’s operation?

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B

27
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Before collecting data, decide on the overarching goal of the system.

What is the surveillance process? (5)

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  • Data collection
  • Data analysis
  • Data interpretation
  • Data dissemination
  • Link to action
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What are data sources for public health surveillance? (5)

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  • Reported diseases or syndromes
  • Electronic health records
  • Vital records
  • Registries
  • Surveys
29
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What is the NNDSS?

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Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System - many diseases on a state list are also nationally notifiable.

30
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What are internally notifiable diseases? (4)

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Reporting ti WHO is required for cases of:

  • smallpox
  • poliomyelitis
  • human influenza caused by any new subtype
  • severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
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What are the questions we need to ask when analysing data? (3)

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How is data interpretation coupled with?

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It is closely coupled with data analysis.

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How is data disseminated? (4)

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34
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What are the data dissemination target audiences? (5)

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What is the surveillance link to action?

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Public health surveillance should always have a link to action.

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Examples of surveillance links to action:

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B

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C

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C

40
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What are the features of public health surveillance-based action? (5)

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