Surveillance Basics
This term refers to the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data.
What is public health surveillance
This type of surveillance helps determine how large or serious a disease problem is in a population.
What is estimating the magnitude of the a problem
Clinicians, laboratories, and healthcare agencies report cases to this level of government.
What is the state health department
Diseases that must be reported to public health authorities are called this.
What are notifiable diseases
This system relies on routine reporting by healthcare providers.
What is passive surveillance
Surveillance has been used in public health protection since this century.
What is the 1200s
This use of surveillance tracks where illnesses occur geographically.
What is determining geographic distribution.
Death certificates and birth certificates are examples of these reports.
What are vital statistics reports
This national system tracks notifiable infectious diseases.
What is the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System
This system involves active outreach to collect data
What is active surveillance
These constitutional powers allow states to conduct surveillance to protect public health.
Surveillance data can help public health departments establish these references points for disease occurrence.
What are baseline rates
This national system collects mortality data in the United States.
What is the National Vital Statistics System
What is the list of reportable diseases
This system uses selected facilities to monitor disease trends
What is sentinel surveillance
These types of data include information about disease events, processes, and outcomes.
What are event, process, and outcome data.
Public health departments use surveillance to prioritize these when resources are limited.
What are public health priorities
This weekly CDC publication summarizes disease trends and outbreaks.
What is the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
This tool ensures consistent criteria are used when reporting diseases.
What is a case definition
This program supports nationwide syndromic surveillance efforts.
What is the National Syndromic Surveillance Program
This type of surveillance is used to detect potential bioterrorism or chemical terrorism events early.
What is syndromic surveillance
Surveillance data are used to develop these to better protect the public.
What are public health policies and programs
This is a major limitation of surveillance data due to missing or incomplete case reporting.
What is underreporting
Cases may be classified into these three categories based on strength of evidence.
What are suspected, probable, and confirmed.
These systems are designed for specific diseases or events.
What are special surveillance systems