Facilitating Public Health Action through Surveillance Dashboards

Facilitating Public Health Action through Surveillance Dashboards

Introduction Traditionally, public health surveillance departments collect, analyze, interpret, and package information into static surveillance reports for distribution to stakeholders. This resource-intensive production and dissemination process has major shortcomings that impede end users from optimally utilizing this information for public health action. Often, by the time traditional repor...

Public Health Surveillance

Facilitating Knowledge Sharing through Inter-action Research

The significance of knowledge in organizations is evident. There is considerable effort in theory as well as in practice on how to foster knowledge as a resource in organizations (see for example Grant, 1996, Tsoukas, 1996). In comparison with traditional resources, knowledge, especially the tacit dimension, differs because of its immaterial characteristics (concerning the concept of tacit know...

Ethics in public health surveillance.

Public health programmes pose some very important ethical problems. One of the most pressing is the possible conflict between individual interests (and rights) and collective interests, which becomes particularly important in the public health surveillance setting. The present article first looks at the definitions of "public health surveillance" in a historical context and then identifies the ...

Public health surveillance in Latvia.

This paper presents public health surveillance data in Latvia. This is the first time these data are being published since the restoration of the Second Republic. The paper describes the state-of-the-art monitoring system of food and water safety. It also contains epidemiological data for Latvia. The conclusion brings a success story about the implementation of the monitoring programme in the c...