Weather related surveillance systems are becoming more common in public health practice. In Texas, Heat Related Illness is now part of surveillance at many health departments. One example is the Tarrant County HRI surveillance (https://access.tarrantcounty.com/en/public-health/disease-control-and-prevention/epidemiology-and-health-information/health-data-and-information/heat-related-illness/current-hri-reports.html (Links to an external site.)). After reviewing some of the reports from the site above, do you think this condition is conducive to PH surveillance? What is the strongest and weakest component of this surveillance system?
Answer the questions above and justify your response using the information you have learned about surveillance thus far in the course including the criteria for identifying a condition for public health surveillance
Weekly readings:
Lee: Ch. 2- Considerations in Planning a Surveillance System
(CO 2., MO 2.1-2.2)
Lee: Ch. 3- Economic and Policy Justification
(CO 2., MO 2.1)
Lee: Ch. 11- Public Health Surveillance for Infectious Diseases
(CO 2., MO 2.3)
Lee: Ch. 12- Chronic Diseases, Injuries, and Birth Defects
(CO 2., MO 2.3)
Lee: Ch. 13- Surveillance for Determinants of Population Health
(CO 2., MO 2.3)
Lee: Ch. 14- Public Health Surveillance for Preparedness and Emergency Response
(CO 2., MO 2.3)
Lee, L.M., Teutsch, S.M., Thacker, S.B., St. Louis, M.E. (2010) Principles & Practice of Public Health Surveillance (3rd Ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Brookmeyer, R. and Stroup, D.F. (Eds). (2004) Monitoring the Health of Populations: Statistical Principles and Methods for Public Health Surveillance. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, an Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics (3rd Ed.). Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/index.html (Links to an external site.).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2001). Updated guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems: recommendations from the guidelines working group. MMWR. 2001;50 (No. RR-13):1-35. Retrieved from https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13376 (Links to an external site.).
Garcia-Abreu, A., Halperin, W., Danel, I. (2002). Public health surveillance toolkit: A guide for busy task managers. Retrieved from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/383611468154452352/pdf/563720WP0REPLA00Box349502B00PUBLIC0.pdf (Links to an external site.)
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