CDC Occupational HIV Surveillance System

CDC Surveillance Strategy – A Strategy for Improving CDC Activities in Public Health Surveillance

Objective This presentation aims to share the CDC Surveillance Strategy’s goals, initiatives and activities. The surveillance strategy describes how CDC will: enhance accountability, resource use, workforce and innovation for surveillance by establishing a Surveillance Leadership Board, a surveillance workforce plan, and an innovation consortium; accelerate the utilization of emerging tools and...

HIV/AIDS Surveillance System in the Islamic Republic of Iran: History, Structures and Processes

Background and Objectives: Iran is one of the Middle Eastern countries that implemented the HIV / AIDS control and surveillance program many years ago. The purpose of this study was to review the HIV / AIDS surveillance system in Iran.   Methods: This was a review research to assess the processes, structures and achievements of the HIV/AIDS surveillance system in Iran. The information sources...

second generation of hiv surveillance system: a pattern for iran

Surveillance in occupational health.

Adefinition of surveillance is as follows: “surveillance (ser-vâ lens) noun. 1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed” (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992). The term “surveillance” is derived from the French word meaning “to watch over”....

A system for occupational injury surveillance in Piracicaba, southeastern Brazil.

This article describes the experience of developing the Occupational Injury Surveillance System in the city of Piracicaba, in upstate São Paulo, Brazil. The system has the following characteristics: the information entered into the system is obtained directly, in real time, where the injured individuals receive medical treatment; the system has universal coverage, including all accidents occurr...