Hall H Irene, Correa Adolfo, Yoon Paula W, Braden Christopher R
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30329-1902, USA.
MMWR Suppl. 2012 Jul 27;61(3):10-4.
Public health surveillance is essential to the practice of public health and to guide prevention and control activities and evaluate outcomes of such activities. With advances in information sciences and technology, changes in methodology, data availability and data synthesis, and expanded health information needs, the question arises whether redefining public health surveillance is needed for the 21st century. The current definition is "Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data, essential to the planning, implementation and evaluation of public health practice, closely integrated with the dissemination of these data to those who need to know and linked to prevention and control."
公共卫生监测对于公共卫生实践、指导预防与控制活动以及评估这些活动的结果至关重要。随着信息科学与技术的进步、方法学的变化、数据可得性与数据综合情况的改变以及健康信息需求的扩大，21世纪是否需要重新定义公共卫生监测这一问题随之而来。当前的定义是：“公共卫生监测是对健康数据进行持续、系统的收集、分析和解读，这对于公共卫生实践的规划、实施和评估必不可少，与将这些数据传播给需要了解的人紧密结合，并与预防和控制相联系。”
