1. Health Surveillance Systems

Question 1

Systematic continuous observation of populations, and collection and analysis of data from many varied sources

Answer 1

Surveillance

Question 2

What 5 things are needed to implement a surveillance system?

Answer 2

1. Central unit
2. Local people
3. Labs
4. People of response
5. Communication system

Question 3

What are the 4 categories of surveillance?

Answer 3

1. Animal health
2. Public health
3. Biosurveillance
4. Food safety

Question 4

What are the two goals of animal health surveillance?

Answer 4

1. Maintain and improve animal health, animal welfare, and economic viability
2. Protection of public health

Question 5

What are the 5 purposes of a surveillance system?

Answer 5

1. Rapid detection of outbreaks
2. Support disease control/elimination
3. Assess pop. health and safety of food
4. Produce information about disease
5. Evaluate disease control/bio-security programs

Question 6

What is situational intelligence?

Answer 6

Assess situation and identify issues

Question 7

What are members of OIE responsible for in regards for assessing population health

Answer 7

estimate the disease risk ass. with their animal and animal product

Question 8

What are the 3 components of surveillance?

Answer 8

1. Detection
2. Response
3. Communication

Question 9

What is detection?

Answer 9

observation of population or collection, analysis and interpretation of data from pop.

Question 10

What is the goal of detection?

Answer 10

timely detection or identification

Question 11

What is response?

Answer 11

the immediate response to disease outbreaks and events

Question 12

What is the goal of response?

Answer 12

Timely, approptriate response to disease events

Question 13

What is the goal of communication?

Answer 13

produce and communicate timely accurate info

Question 14

What are the 4 types of sruveillance?

Answer 14

1. passive surveillance
2. active surveillance
3. Targeted surveillance
4. Sentinel surveillance

Question 15

What is the most common type of surveillance?

Answer 15

passive

Question 16

spontaneous report of cases or suspicion of a disease

Answer 16

Passive surveillance

Question 17

In passive surveillance, who is responsible for submitting data?

Answer 17

individual sample collector

Question 18

T/F In passive surveillance, the central unit actively looks for the disease

Answer 18

F. does not

Question 19

Reportable disease programs fall under what category of surveillance?

Answer 19

passive

Question 20

What are the 3 pros of passive surveillance?

Answer 20

1. continuous
2. emerging disease
3. inexpensive

Question 21

What are the cons of passive surveilance

Answer 21

1. no control on data origin
2. not representative of population
3. No report of stigmatized disease

Question 22

Type of surveillance with committed effort of the central unit to obtain sample/data

Answer 22

Active survellance

Question 23

T/F. In active surveillance, the subjects initiate sample/info collection

Answer 23

T

Question 24

What are the pros of active surveillance?

Answer 24

1. reptresentitive of the pop.

2. Valid estimate of disease occurance

Question 25

What are the cons of Active surveillance?

Answer 25

1. Cost and labor expensive 2. Only once or rarely 3. Problem is no individual id

Question 26

What is targeted surveillance?

Answer 26

active surveillance with biased selection of subject

Question 27

What are the pros of Targeted surveillance

Answer 27

1. Enhanced detection of Dz for lower cost | 2. Good to assess freedom of disease

Question 28

What are the cons of Targeted surveillance?

Answer 28

1. Representitiveness of pop | 2. Less accurate data to estimate amt. of the data

Question 29

What is Sentinel surveillance?

Answer 29

type of targeted surveillance where sm. group is monitored as an indicator of the grater pop. health or dz risk

Question 30

What are the pros of sentinel surveilance?

Answer 30

1. Less expensive | 2. Early warning

Question 31

What are the cons of Sentinel surveillence?

Answer 31

1. Representitiveness of pop. | 2. Intensive (multiple meassures)