epidemiologic surveillance

epidemiologic surveillance
the ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data about a disease or health condition; used in planning, implementing, and evaluating public health programs. It may be passive, requiring those parties responsible for reporting disease to do so on their own, or active, providing visits or other monitoring to those parties to ensure that information is obtained.

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