Public Support for State Surveillance

Towards Near Real Time Public Health Surveillance (A Decision Support System for Public Health Surveillance)

In recent years with increasing population and changing climatic conditions over the globe gave room to outbreak of different diseases, proper and timely handling of disease cases can result in saving many important human lives. Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data regarding a health-related event for use in public ...

Financing public health: diminished funding for core needs and state-by-state variation in support.

This article documents the instability and variation in public financing of public health functions at the federal and state levels. Trust for America's Health has charted federal funding for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, which in turn provides a major portion of financing for state and local public health departments, and has compiled information about state-generated revenue ...

Preparing for State Health Department Accreditation: Pivotal Roles for Public Health Surveillance

Introduction On January 24, 2014, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) released, to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department accreditation. 1 Specifically, Standard 1.2 of the guidance encompasses data collection. Two measures of Standard 1.2 stipulate the requirements of surveillance and their purposes in the context of P...

Public Health Surveillance

Distributed data processing for public health surveillance

BACKGROUND Many systems for routine public health surveillance rely on centralized collection of potentially identifiable, individual, identifiable personal health information (PHI) records. Although individual, identifiable patient records are essential for conditions for which there is mandated reporting, such as tuberculosis or sexually transmitted diseases, they are not routinely required f...