Disease survelliance can best be defined as the ongoing, systematic:
collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of specific health data
The purpose of survelliance is to help public health officials do what?
Identify trends and aberrant disease patterns
Set priorities
Develop and evaluate programs
Establish endemic rates
Respond rapidly
A high quality surveillance program requires collaboration among a number of agencies. Collaboration can best be described as promoting the development of:
Comprehensive plan and effective communications
The CDC, the associate of public health laboratories, and federal food regulatory agencies developed a special surveillance system called PulseNet that:
fingerprints foodborne bacteria
When a disease or event outbreak occurs as a result of a purposeful introduction of an agent into the population, the nurse knows that: