Week 1 - Local Public Health Events/Trends - Discussion 1

Cancer Surveillance

Week 1 - Local Public Health Events/Trends - Discussion 1

Cancer Surveillance

Introduction

Product of the dynamic interface between information generation and actions for resolving the problems are the disease surveillance systems. It can also be considered as a constituent of the broader health information system (HIS) (Lombardo & Buckeridge, 2007). The primary task of surveillance system is to look at the data of trends in any public health event, recognizing the demographic characteristics and then mapping out the disease incidence location (Noble, et al. 2011). Different disease trends have their own ...