Epidemiology is often described as the cornerstone science and public health and public health surveillance is a cornerstone of epidemiology. This course will help you build your technical awareness and skills for working with a variety of surveillance systems. Along the way, we'll focus on system objectives, data reporting, the core surveillance attributes, and performance assessment. This course is designed for public health practitioners and anyone who wants to learn more about the basics of public health surveillance. If you develop or implement surveillance systems or aspire to do so or use the data resulting from surveillance, then this course is for you. It's s also for people who are interested in understanding more about this fundamental epidemiologic tool and public health practice.
This course is part of the Epidemiology in Public Health Practice Specialization
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Discuss the role of surveillance within the broader fields of epidemiology and public health
Assign objectives to define surveillance cases
Use public health surveillance reporting systems
Compare and contrast surveillance systems using system attributes
Skills you will gain
- Data Collection
- Epidemiology
- surveillance
- Disease Surveillance
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Surveillance as a Core Public Health Function
Defining Surveillance Objectives
Surveillance Data Reporting Systems
Surveillance System Attributes and Assessing Performance
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- 4 stars15.87%
- 3 stars2.94%
- 1 star0.90%
TOP REVIEWS FROM SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS: THE BUILDING BLOCKS
It was good introduction of surveillance system, the Nipah and rota virus examples from Bangladesh was very helpful in deeper understanding. Thank you
The course was great. the teacher explained the course material in a simple and understandable language
This course is structured very nicely giving us a lot of relevant reference materials pertaining to surveillance and relating it with real projects to give a better understanding.
The course content is really interesting and well explained. It provided me with extra knowledge apart from my course curriculum.
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