Disease surveillance : a public health informatics approach /

Disease surveillance : a public health informatics approach / [edited by] Joseph S. Lombardo, David Buckeridge. - Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2007. - xxiii, 458 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Disease surveillance, a public health priority -- Understanding the data: health indicators in disease surveillance -- Obtaining the data -- Alerting algorithms for biosurveillance -- Putting it together: the biosurveillance information system -- Modern disease surveillance systems in public health practice -- Canadian applications of modern surveillance informatics -- Case study: use of tele-health data for syndromic surveillance in England and wales -- Surveillance for emerging infection epidemics in developing countries: EWORS and alerta DISAMAR -- Evaulating automated surveillance systems -- Educating the workforce: public health informatics training -- The road ahead: the expanding role of informatics in disease surveillance.

0470068124 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780470068120 (cloth : alk. paper)

2006-053118


Public health surveillance.
Medical informatics.
Population Surveillance--methods.
Public Health Informatics.

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