The art and science of dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social...

The probability that the surveillance system will detect a significant increase (outbreak) of disease. This requires a clear definition of what constitutes an outbreak.

The measures and conditions necessary to control hazards and to ensure fitness for human consumption of a foodstuff taking into account its intended use.

Outbreak where all the human cases live in one single household

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by flies

The process of selecting a number of subjects from all the subjects in a particular group, or “universe.”

A native or indigenous species is a species that occurs within its natural geographical range (past or present) and dispersal potential (i.e. within the range it occupies...

The occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what would normally be expected in a defined community, geographical area or season. An outbreak may occur in a restricted...

A measure of association that quantifies the association between an exposure and a health outcome from an epidemiologic study, calculated as the ratio of incidence proportions...

Investigator-initiated active collection of public health related data from individual units in a population over a set period of time to assess the disease status within the...

A range of surveillance components (and the associated organisational structures) used to investigate the occurrence of more than one hazard in a specified population.

several dependant variables

Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations. Epidemiology is the basic quantitative science of public health.

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A description of any legislation or regulations which act as the basis for determining the requirement for surveillance including whether there are any compensation arrangements...

One Health surveillance describes the systematic collection, validation, analysis, interpretation of data and dissemination of information collected on humans, animals and the...

vector-borne disease, spread by mosquitoes, Aedes, not zoonotic, can be found in humans and primates

A well-defined strain that is used as the example strain for a specific method.

sensitivity is the probability that a test correctly classifies positive individuals who have preclinical disease. Sensivity is expressed as a percentage: The number of...

The extent to which a prevalence estimate produced by the surveillance system deviates from the value of the true prevalence . Bias is reduced as representativeness is increased.