Competency information
Details
Identify a surveillance system and extract data from it.
Considerations
- The public health importance of the clinical/health-related event under surveillance.
- Population under surveillance.
- Types of surveillance including: (i) active surveillance; (ii) passive surveillance; (iii) sentinel surveillance; (iv) syndromic surveillance.
- Disease registration systems.
- Cancer registration (as an example of disease registration).
- How to distinguish key features of communicable, non-communicable and environmental epidemiology.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Generate an epidemiological report analysing and interpreting surveillance data. |