A Summary of Vehicle Detection and Surveillance Technologies
Surveillance Summary
Transcript of Surveillance Summary
Ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome-specific health data.
Beginnings: 14th century with the Bubonic Plague
HIPPA exceptions
• Immediate detection of: epidemics, emerging health problems, changing
practices, changes in resistance.• Annual dissemination for:
estimating the magnitude of health problems, assessing control and preventive activities, setting priorities.
• Archival information for: describing natural history of disease, validating
use of data, setting priorities, documenting distribution and spread.
Reports of Health Events Laboratories and other healthcare Registries Information on health status, risk
factors, and experiences of the population
Information on potential exposure to environmental agents
Information from other organizations