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Descriptor English:
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Epidemiological Surveillance
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Vigilancia Epidemiológica
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Vigilância Epidemiológica
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Synonyms English:
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Epidemiologic Surveillance
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Tree Number:
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SP4.001.012.153.249
SP5.001.047.113
SP8.946.819.973.880
SP9.160.030.020
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Definition English:
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A set of measures that allow for the gathering of information indispensable to understanding the behavior or natural history of diseases, as well as to detecting or preventing changes to its conditioning factors and whose purpose is to recommend efficent preventive measures and control of certain aggravations. WHO: Systematic ongoing collection, collation, and analysis of data and the timely dissemination of information to those who need to know so that action can be taken. CDC: The ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data, essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the timely dissemination of these data to those who need to know. The final link in the surveillance chain is the application of these data to prevention and control. A surveillance system includes a functional capacity for data collection, analysis and dissemination linked to the public health programs. |
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Indexing Annotation English:
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no qualif
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Record Number:
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28441
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