Term
| What is passive surveillance? |
|
Definition
| provider initiated, routine reporting by health care providers based on a known set of rules and regulations (routine reporting by law) |
|
|
Term
| What is active surveillance? |
|
Definition
| Health department initiated, periodic visits to healthcare providers to obtain required info (health dpt is out actively looking for these cases) |
|
|
Term
| What are notifiable diseases? List three criteria that a disease must meet to be considered notifiable. |
|
Definition
-diseases of considerable public health importance bc of their seriousness. As a general rule a disease is included if it:
-causes serious morbidity or death
-has the potential to spread, and
-can be controlled with appropriate intervention |
|
|
Term
| What is the disjoint between public health surveillance and medical diagnosing? |
|
Definition
| in PH surveillance everything needs to meet a certain criteria (i.e. a disease must have positive lab tests to be considered) where in medical diagnosis lab tests are often skipped and people are diagnosed without them (EX: case of rocky mountain spotted fever) |
|
|
Term
| Laws at what level govern reporting of notifiable disease? |
|
Definition
-state
-public health officials at the state health dpts and CDC collaborate as to which diseases are notifiable. |
|
|
