Role of Public Health Surveillance System in Management of Infection

This document discusses the role of the public health surveillance system in managing infections and diseases. It explains how the system collects relevant health data, analyzes it to develop control strategies, and takes actions to control public health hazards. The document also highlights the use of epidemiology principles in determining the health-related phases in the population.

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Role of public health surveillance system in management of infection
Public Health Surveillance System is one of the crucial tool to monitor and evaluate the
health status of population and is the responsible body for preventing as well controlling the
infection and disease (Choi et al., 2016). The surveillance system is served by Ministry of Health
and Finance. The system is known to provide scientific and factual data related to any infectious
disease or health hazard. The data collected is used to give relevant information for effective
interventions. The action taken by the system depends on the objective of health related issues of
growing population. For example, in case of spread of infection in the population, there is the
need to have some system that can give early warning and related information from the clinics or
laboratories. Such function is performed by the Public Health Surveillance System (Sandiford,
Annett & Cibulskis, 2016).
The system keeps kin observation on the effectiveness of the program and can change
their intervention in spread of infection accordingly. The primary role of surveillance system is
to collect health information and takes actions in order to control the infection and disease
(Simonsen et al., 2016). The three main criteria of Public Health Surveillance System are
 Collection of relevant health database.
 Analysis of the database by collecting information for control strategy
 Action taken to control the public health hazards.
The public health surveillance system, uses the epidemiology principles to determine the
health related phases in the population (Marinaccio et al., 2015). The system can start its
surveillance based on the descriptive epidemiology of infections. The surveillance system needs
to first investigate about the infection and its cause in population. Epidemiology is responsible to

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search for the cause of infections and it is related with cumulative health of population. It also
provide effective data for directing effective action to manage the infection (Bhopal, 2016). The
Public Health Surveillance System uses such data to set out the policy and plan program. It is the
duty of the health official to check the effectiveness of such policy by critically assessing the
health of growing population. The information collected is used for controlling and preventing
infections. Therefore, with the help of the public health surveillance system, the prevalence if the
infection is known. The health agency can efficiently control and prevent the spread of infection
by acquiring information about the occurrence and risk factors and allocate the resource
accordingly to manage the infections.

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