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Public Health Surveillance Flashcards

1
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The goal of PHS is to provide ____ for creating effective control measures

A

data and interpretation

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Flow of Surveillance Data

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  • Collection
  • Collation
  • Analysis/Interpretation
  • Dissemination/Utilization
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3
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2 Key activities in public health

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  • Data Generation
  • Interpretation
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4
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Complete the different objectives, data and systems

Detect Epidemics - Epidemic Response -______ - ________

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Early warning information - Active Surveillance

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5
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Complete the different objectives, data and systems

________ - Program Monitoring -______ - Health Information

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Monitor Intervention programs - program indicators

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Complete the different objectives, data and systems

______ - ______ - Health Indicators - Health information

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Monitor impact of policy change - Health policy

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7
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Complete the different objectives, data and systems

Monitor health system - ____ - _____ health information and management

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resource allocation - administrative data

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Ideal Characteristics of PHS

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  • Acceptability
  • Flexibility
  • Validity
  • Quality
  • Representativeness
  • Stability
  • Simplicity
  • Timeliness
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9
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Reflects the willingness of individual person or organization to participate in surveillance

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Acceptability

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Refers to the ability of the method that is used for surveillance to accommodate changes in operating conditions or information needs with little additional cost in time, personnel, or funds

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Flexibility

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Refers to whether the surveillance systems are measuring what they are intended to measure

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Validity

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12
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Completeness and the validity of data for surveillance

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Quality

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Extent to which the findings of a surveillance accurately portray the incidence of a health event among a population by person, place, or time.

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Representativeness

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Refers to the reliability of methods for obtaining and managing surveillance data, and to the availability of those data

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Stability

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Refers to the ease of operation of the surveillance as a whole, and each of its components

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Simplicity

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16
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Refers to whether data are available rapidly enough for public health authorities to take appropriate action

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Timeliness

17
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Step which utilizes criteria for selecting and prioritizing health problems for surveillance

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Identify, define, and measure the health problem of interest

18
Q

Most important consideration in the selection and prioritization of the health problems/conditions/illnesses for surveillance

A

Public Health importance of the problem

19
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Criteria which helps to Identify, define, and measure the health problem of interest

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○ Public health importance of the problem
○ Ability to prevent, control, or treat
○ Capacity of health system to implement control measures for the health problem
○ Case Definitions for surveillance

20
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Syndromic Surveillance is usually done in cases of ____

A

Outbreaks

21
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Case definition that uses a set of less specific criteria

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Syndromic surveillance

22
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Health care providers send reports regarding a particular problem of interest to health departments on the basis of a known set of rules and regulations

Passive or active surveillance?

A

Passive

23
Q

Health departments contact health care providers to solicit reports

Passive or Active surveillance?

A

Active

24
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Surveillance which relies on a pre-arranged sample of health care providers who agree to report all cases of certain conditions

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Sentinel Surveillance

25
Q

Most common person characteristics

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  • Age
  • Sex
  • Race and ethnicity
26
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Data received as text: sorted, categorized, coded
Data from surveys: ____

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Weighed

27
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Purpose of analysis by time

A

To characterize trends and to detect changes in disease incidence

28
Q

In analysis by place, rates are often calculated by ________

A

adjusting for differences in population size

29
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Aggregated reports from PIDSR are incorporated into the annual morbidity report of the _____

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Field Health Services Information System (FHSIS)

30
Q

The creation of PIDSR was created to comply with the ______

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2005 International Health Regulations (IHR)

31
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Surveillance systems under PIDSR

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  • Notifiable Disease Reporting System (NDRS)
  • National Epidemic Sentinel Surveillance System (NESS)
  • Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) Surveillance System
  • HIV-AIDS Registry
32
Q

This surveillance system generated information on 17 diseases and 7 syndromes (Notifiable conditions)

A

NDRS

33
Q

Hospital-based surveillance system that yields
information on admitted cases of diseases with outbreak potential

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National Epidemic Sentinel Surveillance System (NESS)

34
Q

Focuses on the monitoring of priority
vaccine-preventable diseases targeted for
eradication and elimination

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Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) Surveillance System

35
Q

Keeps track of the number of HIV-AIDs cases through a voluntary testing program

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HIV-AIDS Registry

36
Q

Approaches in surveillance

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  • Facility and community-based approaches
  • Case-based data collection
37
Q

A ____-based collection applies to diseases targeted for elimination and eradication and other priority disease as determined by health authorities

A

Intensive Case-based

38
Q

A ____-based collection applies to other notifiable diseases

A

Line list case-based

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