Transforming Public Health Surveillance (Paperback)

Paperback. Public Health Surveillance (PHS) is of primary importance in this era of emerging health threats like ebola, MERS-CoV, influenza, natural and man-made disasters, and non-communicable diseases. Transforming Public Health Surveillance is a forward-looking, topical, and up-to-date overview of the issues and solutions facing PHS. It describes the realities of the gaps and impediments to efficient and effective PHS, while presenting a vision for its possibilities and promises in the 21st century. The book gives a roadmap to the goal of public health information being available, when it is needed and where it is needed. Led by Professor Scott McNabb, an international team of the top-notch public health experts from academia, government, and non-governmental organizations provides the most complete and current update on this core area of public health practice in a decade in 31 chapters. This includes the key roles PHS plays in achieving the global health security agenda and health equity. The authors provide a global perspective for students and professionals in public health. Five case studies aid the understanding of the context for the lessons of the book, and a comprehensive glossary, questions, bullet points, and learning objectives make this book an excellent tool for the classroom.Describes lessons learned in international health crises, the context and development of existing governance documents guiding public health surveillance in the light of global health security concerns, and provides advice on how to construct a modern framework to provide efficient, effective, and equitable global responseDescribes enriched collaborations between military, clinical practice, societies, communities, and governmental and non-governmental organizations and discusses challenges and opportunitiesDescribes informatics approaches to enable and support data sharing, analytics, and visualization though interoperability that will adapt to meet the challenges of the changing field of public health surveillanceDiscusses challenges of modern public health surveillance, and discusses potential solutions, and actions and ideas for the way forwardDescribes how transformed surveillance systems can contribute to better monitoring and guiding of the post 2015 development goals and can further progress the universal goal of health equityIncludes five case studies exploring the lessons of the book under different contexts including Antimicrobial Resistance, MERS-CoV, Pandemic Influenza, Refugee Surveillance, and MeaslesTable of Contents:1. Past Contributions to Public Health Surveillance2. CDC Perspectives and Strategy on Emerging Public Health Surveillance Issues and Opportunities3. Models of Public Health Surveillance4. Integrated Versus Vertical Public Health Surveillance5. Reactive Versus Proactive Public Health Surveillance6. New Public Health Surveillance Evaluation Model7. New Matrix for Evaluation of Public Health Surveillance8. Economics of Public Health Surveillance9. Supply and Demand of the Public Health Workforce10. Policies, Standards, and Best Practices for Public Health Surveillance11. Keeping Our World Safe by Integrating Public Health and Global Security12. Smart Governance of Public Health Surveillance13. Achieving the Right Balance in Governance of Public Health Surveillance14. One Health in the 21st Century15. Collaboration for Biosurveillance16. Contributions of Military Public Health Surveillance to Global Public Health Security17. Nonprofit Associations and Cultivating Collaboration to Advance Public Health Surveillance18. Linking Clinical Medicine Data with Public Health Surveillance for Mutual Benefit19. Engaging Communities to Transform Public Health Surveillance20. Art and Science of Interoperability to Create Connections21. Data Storms are Growing, Everywhere, and Have to Work Together22. Surveillance Inf Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…