Reportable Disease Surveillance
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Length: 20 minutes
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This presentation, by Aaron Kipp, gives you an overview of communicable disease surveillance and discusses specific types of surveillance
Target Audience
These learning modules are applicable to all public health, medical, veterinary, pharmacy, emergency management, hospital and other professionals interested in public health preparedness. These modules are created by faculty and guest lecturers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Educational Objectives
- Provide a broad definition of surveillance and outline the general framework of surveillance
- Distinguish between active and passive surveillance
- Understand the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS)
- Identify multiple national disease surveillance systems
Competencies Addressed
This training addresses selected applied epidemiology, core public health, and public health preparedness and response competencies as noted below. (Please note: The following training does not provide comprehensive or in-depth treatment of specified competencies, it provides basic knowledge of the competencies listed below.)
| Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals |
| 4) Uses methods and instruments for collecting valid and reliable quantitative and qualitative data (1: Analytic/Assessment Skills) |
| 4) Applies the basic public health sciences (including, but not limited to biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health sciences, health services administration, and social and behavioral health sciences) to public health policies and programs (6: Basic Public Health Sciences Skills) |
| Public Health Preparedness & Response Core Competencies |
| 2.5. Manage the recording and/or transcription of data according to protocol. |
References
CDC case definitions.
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/casedef/case_definitions.htm
CDC infectious disease surveillance systems.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/osr/site/surv_resources/surv_sys.htm
CDC Integrated project: National electronic diseases surveillance system.
http://www.cdc.gov/od/hissb/act_int.htm
CDC nationally notifiable infectious diseases.
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs/infdis2004.htm
CDC. Notifiable diseases/deaths in selected cities weekly information. MMWR. June 4, 2004/53(21); 460-468.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5321md.htm.
CDC. Summary of notifiable diseases - United States, 2002. MMWR. April 30, 2004/51(53); 1-84.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5153a1.htm.
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. www.cste.org
Last JM. A Dictionary of Epidemiology (4th Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
North Carolina reportable diseases and conditions.
http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/gcdc/pdf/10ANCAC41A.pdf
Sosin, D. Acute disease surveillance and outbreak investigation: Federal surveillance "systems".
http://cphp.sph.unc.edu/training/acute/certificate.php
Weber, D. Introduction to surveillance.
http://cphp.sph.unc.edu/training/surveillance/certificate.php
Author and Narrator:
Reviewer:
Jennifer Horney, MPH
The author(s) and reviewer(s) of this training have no personal financial relationships with commercial interests relevant to this presentation to disclose.
Continuing Education Credit:
The UNC Center for Public Health Preparedness offers the following continuing education credit/s on this training. Eligibility for all continuing education credit is determined on an annual basis.
- none
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