Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges―Finding Solutions: Workshop Summary - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; Board On Global Health; Forum On Microbial Threats

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309111145 ISBN 13: 9780309111140

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2007

Synopsis

Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced. Containing the spread of such diseases in a profoundly interconnected world requires active vigilance for signs of an outbreak, rapid recognition of its presence, and diagnosis of its microbial cause, in addition to strategies and resources for an appropriate and efficient response. Although these actions are often viewed in terms of human public health, they also challenge the plant and animal health communities.

Surveillance, defined as "the continual scrutiny of all aspects of occurrence and spread of a disease that are pertinent to effective control", involves the "systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data." Disease detection and diagnosis is the act of discovering a novel, emerging, or reemerging disease or disease event and identifying its cause. Diagnosis is "the cornerstone of effective disease control and prevention efforts, including surveillance."

Disease surveillance and detection relies heavily on the astute individual: the clinician, veterinarian, plant pathologist, farmer, livestock manager, or agricultural extension agent who notices something unusual, atypical, or suspicious and brings this discovery in a timely way to the attention of an appropriate representative of human public health, veterinary medicine, or agriculture. Most developed countries have the ability to detect and diagnose human, animal, and plant diseases.

Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges -- Finding Solutions, Workshop Summary is part of a 10 book series and summarizes the recommendations and presentations of the workshop.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary and Assessment
• 1 Surveillance Strategies
• 2 Surveillance Networks
• 3 Detection and Diagnostics
• 4 Resource Needs and Opportunities
• Appendix A Agenda
• Appendix B Acronyms
• Appendix C Forum Member Biographies

About this title

About the Author

Forum on Microbial Threats, Stanley M. Lemon, Margaret A. Hamburg, P. Frederick Sparling, Eileen R. Choffnes, and Alison Mack, Rapporteurs

About this edition

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0309111145
• ISBN 13: 9780309111140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284