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标题：Public health surveillance: historical origins, methods and evaluation.
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作者：S. Declich ; A. O. Carter
期刊名称：Bulletin of the World Health Organization
印刷版ISSN：0042-9686
出版年度：1994
卷号：72
期号：2
页码：285-304
语种：English
出版社：World Health Organisation
摘要：In the last three decades, disease surveillance has grown into a complete discipline, quite distinct from epidemiology. This expansion into a separate scientific area within public health has not been accompanied by parallel growth in the literature about its principles and methods. The development of the fundamental concepts of surveillance systems provides a basis on which to build a better understanding of the subject. In addition, the concepts have practical value as they can be used in designing new systems as well as understanding or evaluating currently operating systems. This article reviews the principles of surveillance, beginning with a historical survey of the roots and evolution of surveillance, and discusses the goals of public health surveillance. Methods for data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and dissemination are presented, together with proposed procedures for evaluating and improving a surveillance system. Finally, some points to be considered in establishing a new surveillance system are presented. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (3.1M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304