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Generel presentations about infectious disease surveillance

Einführung

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Content This presentation gives an introduction to surveillance system. How it is defined, how it falls in the domain of general surveillance, what its objectives are
Time 90 Minutes
Language German
Intended audience Ärztinnen und Ärzte in Weiterbildung zum Facharzt für öffentliches Gesundheitswesen.
Learning objectives (1) Surveillance ist wichtiger denn je (2) “Daten für Taten” (3) Schritte der Surveillance (4) Surveillance muss durchdefiniert werden

Introduction to surveillance systems

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Content This presentation gives an introduction to surveillance system. How it is defined, how it falls in the domain of general surveillance, what its objectives are
Time 15 Minutes
Language English
Intended audience Young professionals, Fellows of the European programme for intervention epidemiology
Learning objectives (1) Know the important parts of the definition (2) Understand the domain surveillance (3) Know the objectives

Stages of surveillance systems

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Content This presentation gives an overview of the stages of an surveillance system.
Time 10 Minutes
Language English
Intended audience Young professionals, Fellows of the European programme for intervention epidemiology
Learning objectives (1) Understand that the definition of surveillance includes most stages (2) The stages are: Events, Collection, Classification, Data management, Analysis, Communication, Action

Types of surveillance systems

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Content This presentation gives an overview of the types of surveillance system e.g. case based, syndromic, event based, wastewater, active vs passive
Time 20 Minutes
Language English
Intended audience Young professionals, Fellows of the European programme for intervention epidemiology
Learning objectives (1) Understand that different overlapping types of surveillance system exist (2) Know what case based surveillance is (3) Know what syndromic surveillance is (4) Know what event based surveillance is

Attributes of surveillance systems

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Content This presentation covers the attributes of a surveillance system. It covers underestimation, validty, timeliness and other attributes
Time 20 Minutes
Language English
Intended audience Young professionals, Fellows of the European programme for intervention epidemiology
Learning objectives (1) Be able to describe characteristics of a surveillance system (2) Understand underestimation (3) Understand validity (4) Understand timeliness (5) Know that there are many attributes often with unclear defintions

Evaluation of surveillance systems

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Content This presentation gives an overview of how to evaluate a surveillance system.
Time 10 Minutes
Language English
Intended audience Young professionals, Fellows of the European programme for intervention epidemiology
Learning objectives (1) Learn the steps of an evaluation (2) need to adapt the evaluation to the trigger and the attributes (3) Surveillance is a team effort