WEEK 2-DAY 4

Identifying Data Sources



Week 2 - Day 4

Discussion - 1

Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach Discussion

The term chronic diseases usually refer to the long term agony and slow progressive pain that patients go through once diagnosed. Chronic diseases include several heart diseases, orthopedic pains, respiratory disease and diabetes etcetera (World Health Organization, 2008). Over 75% of spending in the field of health care is spent on the treatment of patients suffering from chronic diseases worldwide. The people who are affected by these sufferings have to consume medicines and take curative treatments for a long period of time; ...