Role of Public Health Surveillance System in Management of Infection

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PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
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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