Infectious disease surveillance
Learn how infectious diseases are monitored
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About the book
This book is about infectious disease surveillance. It explains what surveillance ist, how it is related with other similiar concepts, what the stages of a surveillance systems are and how to asses the quality of surveillance systems. The book is written for infectious disease experts in Europe, but can be used by anybody interested in the topic.
Learning objectives
- Surveillance is information for action
- Learn how to define a surveillance system
- Get to know types of surveillance systems
- Learn the stages of a surveillance system
- Find resources about the evaluation
Who writes this book
The contents of the book come mainly form the “EPIET-World” - the european fellowship programm for applied epidemiology. Most content of the book is writtten by Jakob Schumacher, but its based upon the work of many collegues who taught the subject beforehand. The book does not represent the opinion of the insitutions that the author is affiliated. It does also not represent the opinion of the ECDC. Training section.
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