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Health Systems for Syndromic and Epidemiological Surveillance

Health Systems for Syndromic and Epidemiological Surveillance

Débora Helena Job, Antônio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes, Artur Ziviani
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466608887|ISBN10: 1466608889|EISBN13: 9781466608894
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0888-7.ch010
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Job, Débora Helena, et al. "Health Systems for Syndromic and Epidemiological Surveillance." Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications: Advancements and Developments, edited by Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, et al., IGI Global, 2012, pp. 246-263. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0888-7.ch010

APA

Job, D. H., Gomes, A. T., & Ziviani, A. (2012). Health Systems for Syndromic and Epidemiological Surveillance. In J. Rodrigues, I. de la Torre Díez, & B. Sainz de Abajo (Eds.), Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications: Advancements and Developments (pp. 246-263). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0888-7.ch010

Chicago

Job, Débora Helena, Antônio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes, and Artur Ziviani. "Health Systems for Syndromic and Epidemiological Surveillance." In Telemedicine and E-Health Services, Policies, and Applications: Advancements and Developments, edited by Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Isabel de la Torre Díez, and Beatriz Sainz de Abajo, 246-263. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0888-7.ch010

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Abstract

Health surveillance practices date back to decades ago. Traditionally, such practices to gather health data have been manual; more recently, however, computerized health information systems have been applied to enhance and facilitate health information acquisition for surveillance. The so-called health surveillance systems put in practice the systematic acquisition of health data, which is stored and processed for expert analysis. This chapter makes a survey of health surveillance systems dedicated to syndromic and epidemiological surveillance, identifying the different design and technological strategies adopted in the development of such systems. The aims of such a survey are: (1) to provide practitioners with some information about the collective expertise of health information system architects in the design and implementation of syndromic and epidemiological surveillance systems; and (2) to pave the way for the establishment of software product lines dedicated to such systems.

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