[Work experience of the Minsk City Epidemiological Health Station in organizing a system for the epidemiological health surveillance of infectious diseases].

The system of the sanitary and epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases comprises three aspects: supply of information, epidemiological and sanitary-hygienic surveillance. The system ensures the reliable epidemiological diagnosis, close collaboration in the work of specialists of sanitary and epidemiological departments, the differentiated surveillance of epidemiologically important objects, and the effectiveness of measures aimed at decreasing the infectious diseases incidence rates.