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Introduction to Surveillance Flashcards

1
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What is the Problem?

A

Surveillance

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What is the cause?

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Risk factor Identification

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What works?

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Intervention Evaluation

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How do you do it?

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Implementation

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Public Health Approach

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PROBLEM ——–> RESPONSE

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Public Health Core Sciences

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Prevention Effectiveness
Epidemiology
Laboratory
Informatics
Surveillance

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The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of
health-related data essential to planning, implementation, and
evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those responsible for prevention and control

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Public Health Surveillance

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Public Health Surveillance Keywords

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systematic
ongoing
collection
analysis
interpretation
dissemination
health-related data
linked to public health practice

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Goal of Public Health Surveillance

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Provide information that can be used for health action by public health personnel, government leaders, and the public to guide public health policy and programs

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10
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True or False:
Uses of Public Health Surveillance:
Identify patients and their contacts for treatment and
intervention

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True

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Example of Public Health Headlines

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-Whooping Cough Kills Five in California; State Declares an Epidemic
-New CDC Report Shows Adult Obesity Growing or Holding Steady in All States
etc

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Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events
of Public Health Concern Act

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Republic Act No. 11332

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13
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This Act provide for policies and prescribing procedures on
surveillance and response to notifiable diseases, epidemics,
and health events of public health concern, and appropriating
funds therefor

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Republic Act No. 11332

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14
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True or False:
Health care providers, hospitals, and laboratories are
required to report cases to the local health department (LHD)

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TRUE

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It is usually responsible for case investigation and action. Also forwards the disease report to the state health department

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LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT (LHD)

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Types of Public Health Surveillance

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  1. Passive Surveillance
  2. Active Surveillance
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-Diseases are reported by health care providers
-Simple and inexpensive
-Limited by incompleteness of reporting and variability of quality

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Passive Surveillance

18
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-Health agencies contact health providers seeking reports
-Ensures more complete reporting of conditions
-Used in conjunction with specific epidemiologic investigation

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Active Surveillance

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Other Types of Public Health Surveillance

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-Sentinel Surveillance
-Syndromic Surveillance

20
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-Reporting of health events by health professionals who are selected to represent a geographic area or a specific reporting group
-Can be active or passive

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Sentinel Surveillance

21
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Focuses on one or more symptoms rather than a
physician-diagnosed or laboratory-confirmed disease

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Syndromic Surveillance

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ATTRIBUTE:
How useful is the system in accomplishing its objectives?

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Usefulness

23
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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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Data quality

24
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How quickly are reports received?

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Timeliness

25
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How quickly can the system adapt to changes?

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Flexibilty

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How easy is the system’s operation

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Simplicity

27
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Does the surveillance system work well?
Does it break down often?

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Stability

28
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How well does it capture the intended cases?

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Sensitivity

29
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How many of the reported cases meet the case definition?

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Predictive value positive

30
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How good is the system at representing the population under
surveillance?

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Representativeness

31
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How easy is the system’s operation?

A

Acceptability

32
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Surveillance Proces

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-Data Collection
-Data Analysis
-Data Interpretation
-Data Dissemination
-Link to Action

33
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Data Sources for Public Health Surveillanc

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  • Reported diseases or syndromes
  • Electronic health records
  • Vital records
  • Registries
  • Surveys
34
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Before collecting data, decideon the overarching goal
of the system

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Data Collection

35
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Reporting to WHO is required for cases of

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  • Smallpox
  • Poliomyelitis (wild type)
  • Human influenza caused by
    any new subtype
  • Severe acute respiratory
    syndrome (SARS)
36
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  • Who will analyze the data?
  • What methodology will they use?
  • How often will they analyze the data?
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Data Analysis

37
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Data interpretation is closely coupled with data analysis

A

Data interpretation

38
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  • Health agency newsletters, bulletins, or alerts
  • Surveillance summaries and reports
  • Medical and epidemiologic journal articles
  • Press releases and social media
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Data Dissemination

39
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Public health surveillance should always have a link to action

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Link to action

40
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Monitor trends and patterns in disease, risk factors, and agents

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Link to action

41
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“The reason for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on a disease is to control that disease. Collection and analysis should not be allowed to consume resources if action does not follow.”

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—William Foege, 1976

42
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True or False:
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A

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