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Public Health Dynamics
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Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response

Disease surveillance is recognized as the foundation of public health decision-making and

practice. Surveillance data provide information which can be used for priority setting, policy decisions,
planning, implementation, resource mobilization and allocation, prediction and early detection of
epidemics. A surveillance system can also be used for monitoring, evaluation and improvement of
disease prevention and control programs.

Integrated Disease surveillance is a process of coordinating, prioritizing, and streamlining of

multiple disease surveillance systems into a unified national disease surveillance system that combines
core surveillance activities and support functions into a single integrated activity for the purpose of
making the system more efficient and effective in providing timely, accurate and relevant information
for action.

The goal of Philippine Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response is to support the health
sector in reducing morbidity and mortality from diseases of public health importance through an
institutionalized, functional integrated disease surveillance and response system.

The diseases included in the surveillance are as

follows:

1. Acute Flaccid Paralysis

2. Adverse Events Following Immunization
3. Anthrax 14. Acute Viral Hepatitis
15. Bacterial Meningitis
4. Human Avian Influenza
5. Measles 16. Cholera
17. Dengue
6. Meningococcal Disease
7. Neonatal Tetanus 18. Diphtheria
19. Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
8. Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
9. Rabies 20. Influenza-like Illness
21. Leptospirosis
10. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
11. Acute Bloody Diarrhea 22. Malaria
23. Non-neonatal Tetanus
12. Acute Encephalitis Syndrome
13. Acute Hemorrhagic Fever Syndrome 24. Pertussis
25. Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever

As we all know in Public Health Dynamics, surveillance generates data that is helpful to the
Public Health Officials in understanding the existing and emerging infectious and non-infectious
diseases. Without these quality data, interventions may become misguided and wasteful. With the
functional surveillance and proper understanding of health problem it will not be difficult to reorganize
the health issue.