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1. Overview of Public Health Surveillance Epidemiology Program Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2. Public Health Approach
3. Public Health Surveillance Ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those responsible for prevention and control.
4. Public Health Surveillance Systematic, ongoing
Collection
Analysis
Interpretation
Dissemination
Link to public health practice
5. Purposes of Public Health Surveillance Assess public health status
Define public health priorities
Evaluate programs
Stimulate research
6. Core Public Health Functions Assessment
Policy development
Assurance
7. Surveillance
Information for Action
8. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
9. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
10. SHIGELLOSIS
1970-2000
11. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
12. Rate of HEPATITIS A
United States and territories, 2000
13. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
15. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
16. Outbreak caused by sautéed onions, IL
17. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
18. MEASLES (Rubeola)
United States, 1965-2000
19. PERTUSSIS (whooping cough)
United States, 2000
20. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
21. POLIOMYELITIS (paralytic)
United States, 1970-2000
22. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
24. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
26. Uses of Public Health Surveillance Estimate magnitude of the problem
Determine geographic distribution of illness
Portray the natural history of a disease
Detect epidemics/define a problem
Generate hypotheses, stimulate research
Evaluate control measures
Monitor changes in infectious agents
Detect changes in health practices
Facilitate planning
27. U.S.-born
30. Causal Pathway of Disease or Disability Environment (pre-exposure)
Hazard/agent
Behavior/risk factor
Exposure
Pre-symptomatic phase
Apparent disease
Death
31. Selected Sources of Data Environmental monitoring systems
Animals/vectors
Individuals
Laboratories
Medical records
Administrative records
Police records
Birth/death certificates
32. Data Sources and Methods for Surveillance Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
33. Data Sources/Methods Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
34. Current Status: National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) CSTE/CDC collaboration
List revised at annual CSTE meeting
Voluntary reporting by states to CDC
Reporting mandated at state level
Reportable diseases vary by state
35. National Notifiable Disease Surveillance Reporting mandated by state law/regulation
Health care providers, laboratories report to local HD (county)
County HD submits reports to State
Reports transmitted to CDC primarily through National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance (NETSS)
36. MUMPS
United States, 1975-2000
37. MEASLES (Rubeola)
United States, 1965-2000
38. Passive vs. Active Surveillance Passive
- Provider-initiated
Active
- Health Department-initiated
39. Data Sources Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
40. Outbreak caused
41. Salmonella—serotypes of isolatesUnited States, 1973-1998
42. Blood Lead Measurements 1975-1981
43. Data Sources Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
44. Use of NCHS Data Systems for Surveillance Vital Statistics
National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS)
Linked:
birth records
death records
45. Data Sources Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
46. Sentinel Surveillance Monitoring of key health events through sentinel:
Sites
Events
Providers
Vectors/animals
47. SENSOR Sentinel
Event
Notification
System for
Occupational
Risks
48. Lead PoisoningMichigan, 1990
49. Confirmed Work-Related Asthma PatientsBy Industry Type: 1988-1998Michigan
50. Data Sources Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
52. Birth Defects Monitoring Programs Vital records
Hospital discharge summaries
Hospital records (active abstraction)
53. Prevalence of Anencephaly and Spina BifidaMetropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program, 1968-2000
54. Data Sources Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
56. Use of NCHS Data Systems for Surveillance Population-based surveys
National Health Interview Survey
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Provider-based surveys
National Hospital Discharge Survey
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
58. Cesarean Deliveries United States, 1970-1992
59. Data Sources Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
60. Ectopic PregnanciesUnited States 1980-1996
61. Data Sources Notifiable diseases
Laboratory specimens
Vital records
Sentinel surveillance
Registries
Surveys
Administrative data systems
Other data sources
62. Other Data Useful for Surveillance Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
CDC Drug Service
Miscellaneous