Public Health Surveillance and Infectious Disease Detection

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen S. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Public Health Surveillance ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Disease Detection

scholarly journals Digital Disease Detection — Harnessing the Web for Public Health Surveillance

2009 ◽  
Vol 360 (21) ◽  
pp. 2153-2157 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Brownstein ◽  
Clark C. Freifeld ◽  
Lawrence C. Madoff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Surveillance ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Disease Detection ◽  
Digital Disease Detection ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals Woven of War-Time Fabrics: The globalization of public health surveillance

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin A. French
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Public Health Surveillance ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Health Discourse

This article considers the imbrication of war-time logics with the ideational and institutional development of public health surveillance.  It suggests that, as the Cold-War–era gave way to the ‘age of globalization’, public health discourse became less concerned with ideological enemies, and more concerned with ontological enemies. The discourse of emerging infectious disease exemplifies this preoccupation and illustrates how public health surveillance, dominated by war-time logics, is both globalized and predisposed to marginalized local orders of concern. However, at the same time that militarized configurations of public health surveillance set certain tendencies in motion, local orders of concern deconstruct, contest, resist, and negotiate these tendencies. Hence, this article concludes with a call for further empirical attention by Surveillance Studies scholars to the multiplicity of local sites that enact public health surveillance.

scholarly journals Precision Metagenomics: Rapid Metagenomic Analyses for Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Public Health Surveillance

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Afshinnekoo ◽  
Chou Chou ◽  
Noah Alexander ◽  
Sofia Ahsanuddin ◽  
Audrey N. Schuetz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Public Health Surveillance ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Disease Diagnostics ◽  
Infectious Disease Diagnostics

scholarly journals The Epidemiology and Surveillance Workforce among Local Health Departments in California: Mutual Aid and Surge Capacity for Routine and Emergency Infectious Disease Situations

2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (6_suppl4) ◽  
pp. 114-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne T.A. Enanoria ◽  
Adam W. Crawley ◽  
Jennifer C. Hunter ◽  
Jeannie Balido ◽  
Tomas J. Aragon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Public Health Surveillance ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Local Health Departments ◽  
Surge Capacity ◽  
Wide Range

Objective. Public health surveillance and epidemiologic investigations are critical public health functions for identifying threats to the health of a community. We conducted a survey of local health departments (LHDs) in California to describe the workforce that supports public health surveillance and epidemiologic functions during routine and emergency infectious disease situations. Methods. The target population consisted of the 61 LHDs in California. The online survey instrument was designed to collect information about the workforce involved in key epidemiologic functions. We also examined how the public health workforce increases its epidemiologic capacity during infectious disease emergencies. Results. Of 61 LHDs in California, 31 (51%) completed the survey. A wide range of job classifications contribute to epidemiologic functions routinely, and LHDs rely on both internal and external sources of epidemiologic surge capacity during infectious disease emergencies. This study found that while 17 (55%) LHDs reported having a mutual aid agreement with at least one other organization for emergency response, only nine (29%) LHDs have a mutual aid agreement specifically for epidemiology and surveillance functions. Conclusions. LHDs rely on a diverse workforce to conduct epidemiology and public health surveillance functions, emphasizing the need to identify and describe the types of staff positions that could benefit from public health surveillance and epidemiology training. While some organizations collaborate with external partners to support these functions during an emergency, many LHDs do not rely on mutual aid agreements for epidemiology and surveillance activities.

National Retail Data Monitor for Public Health Surveillance

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. Wagner ◽  
F-C. Tsui ◽  
J. Espino ◽  
W. Hogan ◽  
J. Hutman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Surveillance ◽  
Health Surveillance
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