Public Health Surveillance – a brief overview

In this video we take a brief look at surveillance – the eyes and ears of public health. We’ll have a look at passive, active, sentinel, rumour and syndromic surveillance. We’ll also have a look at the characteristics of a good surveillance system.

This video was created by Ranil Appuhamy
Voiceover – James Clark

For more information about surveillance have a look at these websites:

https://www.cdc.gov/surveillancepractice/
https://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/surveillance.html
http://www.who.int/topics/public_health_surveillance/en/
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/databases/en/

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