A combination of data and information, to which is added expert opinion, skills, and experience, resulting in a valuable asset that aids decision making. In organizational...

Measured analyte concentration, obtained by a given measurement procedure, for which the probability of detection is x. In this protocol x= 50, i.e. LOD50 is the level of...

Classification of cases is based on clinical criteria, epidemiological link, and presumptive laboratory criteria

A given segment of a society or a population.

Reg. 178/2002: means the ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food-producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into a food or feed, through...

An aggregate format for a dataset includes information related to a group of people classified under the same category for a disease or health-related event

The period between inoculation and appearance of visible symptoms.

is the domain of descriptive epidemiology, which involves the analysis of disease patterns according to the characteristics of person, place and time. In other words,...

Any of a variety of measures (e.g. mortality rate) that indicate the state of health of a given population. A variable susceptible to direct measurement that reflects the state...

A distinct part or branch of a nation’s sociological, economic, or political society or a sphere of activity such as human health, animal health, or environment.

The real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions among experts, community leaders or officials and the people who are at risk or who have a direct influence on risk...

Term not used in this sector

One or more of the first wave of cases serves as a source of infection for subsequent cases and those subsequent cases, in turn, serve as sources for later cases. The shape of...

Means that more than one sector is working together (e.g. on a joint program or response to an event), but does not imply that all relevant sectors are working together

non-profit organization based in the U.S., created out of the joint efforts of leaders from multiple disciplines.

A system whereby the disease or infection has to be reported to the competent authority based on a legal obligation.

Personal characteristics of a person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation) demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to...

Total characteristics displayed by an organism under a particular set of environmental factors, regardless of the actual genotype of the organism.

See "passive surveillance"