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Syndromic surveillance is the analysis of medical data to detect or anticipate disease outbreaks.According to a CDC definition, "the term 'syndromic surveillance' applies to surveillance using health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response.
The importance of using unofficial sources of information for public health surveillance has become increasingly recognized. [19] Sometimes referred to as “event-based surveillance” or “epidemic intelligence,” informal disease reporting services, pioneered by ProMED, have become a crucial component of the overall global infectious ...
Ronald St. John, then a government epidemiologist, created GPHIN in 1994 as a way to improve Canada's intelligence surrounding outbreaks. [2] Growing in parallel with ProMED-mail, [3] GPHIN was Canada's major contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO), which at one point credited the system with supplying 20 per cent of its "epidemiological intelligence" and described the system as ...
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) was a public health surveillance system in the United States that monitored drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments and drug-related deaths. [1] DAWN was discontinued in 2011, [ 1 ] but its creator, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), continues to develop ...
Sentinel systems involve a network of reporting sites, typically doctors, laboratories and public health departments. Surveillance sites must offer: [3] commitment to resource the program; a high probability of observing the target disease, a laboratory capable of systematically testing subjects for the disease, experienced, qualified staff.
the Southeastern European Health Network (SEEHN) (2001) [1] the Asia Partnership on Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (APEIR) (2006) [1] the SACIDS Foundation for One Health (SACIDS) of the Southern African Development Community (2008) [1] the Southeast European Center for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases (SECID) (2013)
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) is a network composed of numerous technical and public health institutions, laboratories, NGOs, and other organizations that work to observe and respond to threatening epidemics. [1] GOARN works closely with and under the World Health Organization (WHO), which is one of its most notable ...
Health network surveillance also has a proactive impact by providing business intelligence and network monitoring that can improve a health organization's efficiency and effectiveness through real time information that can support decision making about network architecture, business processes and resource allocation. Two approaches enable the ...