Disease surveillance

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DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
A PUBLIC HEALTH ECOSYSTEM
UGM
EDSS Track
June 19, 2016

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PUBLIC HEALTH: A PRIMER
• Public health is the practice of protecting
and improving the health of families and
communities through promotion of healthy
lifestyles, research for disease and injury
prevention and detection and control of
infectious diseases.
• A core function of public health is
assessment which includes disease
surveillance

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ECOSYSTEM CONCEPT

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PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION
ECOSYSTEM

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Public
Health
Ecosystem
Preparedness
& Response
Occupational
Safety
Global Health
Statistics
Surveillance
and Laboratory
Chronic
Disease
Environmental
Health
Immunization
Emerging and
Zoonotic
Communicable
Disease
Injury
Prevention

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WHAT IS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE?
o A surveillance program that significantly reduces
the burden of and time required to address
public health threats
o An efficient surveillance system is a crucial
factor in identifying, monitoring and tackling
outbreaks of infectious diseases
o electronic health records, disease registries, vital
statistics, electronic lab reporting, emergency
department visits, ambulance call data, school
absenteeism, prescription pharmacy sales,
serology, etc.

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DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
ECOSYSTEM
What are we missing?
Epidemiologist
Public Health Nurse
Vaccine-Preventable
Program Staff
Infections Disease
Program Staff
Environmental
Health Staff
Emergency
Preparedness
Staff
Laboratory Staff
Medical Staff
Pharmacy Staff
Disease ContactsDisease Case
Syndromic Systems
Electronic
Systems
Paper
Phone
EmailHealth
Promotion Staff

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PLACEHOLDER FOR KAHOOT’S

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How do you go with the flow?

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Instructions - Activity 1
1. Select your players on who you would want to
be a part of your disease surveillance eco-
system
2. Order them by who you would use or talk to
first when performing your day to day disease
surveillance activities
3. Create new players using blank pieces of paper
if not all your ideal players are available
4. Be creative in building your eco-system. Think
of everyone who should be a part of it.

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Instructions - Activity 2
1. Take sheets of paper and in each sheet write
down a step that represents your IDEAL
workflow for disease surveillance
2. On the wall or the table, order each step as you
would implement them
3. Be creative! Think outside the box. You’re the
boss. Current policies do not apply here. Just
because it is a policy, does not mean it is the
best method of doing something.
4. Compare with the players in your eco-system

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CURRENT GAPS

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These are a few of my favorite things

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Prioritize the Gaps
1.Top priority - we’re almost at a
showstopper
2.Second priority - pretty high, but we can
live without it. . .for now
3.Third priority - important, but won’t matter
much if we don’t address the first and
second priorities first

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• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
Gap Filling

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Pick your team!

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Pick your team!
This is going to be like the White Elephant
game (except you can’t steal players, you’re
stuck with who you have):
1.Select a number
2.There are only a certain number of public
health/non-public health players to choose
from for your team
3.Person with the lowest number (ex: 1) gets
to choose first, followed by the person with
the second lowest (ex: 2) and so on

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Now that you have your team. . .

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Your syndromic surveillance system is alerting you that
something is going on. With your current team and
only this graph as information, tackle the following
questions:
1. What do you think may be going on?
2. Based on what you think is going on, how would
you respond to the incident with the limited team
members you have?
3. How would you mitigate the impact of the incident?
4. Who or what would you have liked to have to help
you with this event?

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UGM 2016 in Review

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