Definition*
•Public health surveillance is the
ongoing
systematiccollection, analysis, and interpretation of health dataessential to the planning, implementation, and evaluationof public health practice, closely integrated with the
timely dissemination
of these data to those who needto know.•The final link in the surveillance chain is the applicationof these data to
prevention
and
control
. A surveillancesystem includes a
functional capacity
for datacollection, analysis, and dissemination linked to
publichealth programs
.
Thacker, S.B., and Berkelman, R.L. "Public Health Surveillance in the United States."
Epidemiology Reviews
10 (1988): 164-90.
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