Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance, 3rd
Edition
Visit the link below to download the full version of this book:
[Link]
llance-3rd-edition/
Click Download Now
Title Pages
New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto
With offices in
Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech
Republic France Greece
Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland
Portugal Singapore
South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey
Ukraine Vietnam
Copyright © 2010 by Oxford University Press.
Published by Oxford University Press, Inc.
198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016
[Link]
Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford
University Press
All rights reserved. No part of this publication
may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in
any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording,
or otherwise,
without the prior permission of Oxford University
Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Principles and practice of public health
surveillance. — 3rd ed. / [edited by] Lisa M. Lee…
[et al.].
p. ; cm.
Rev. ed. of: Principles and practice of public
health surveillance / edited by Steven M. Teutsch,
R. Elliott Churchill. 2nd ed. 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–537292–2 1. Public health
surveillance. I. Lee, Lisa M.
[DNLM: 1. Population Surveillance—methods—
United States. 2. Data Interpretation, Statistical
—United States. 3. Disease Outbreaks—
prevention & control—United States. 4.
Models, Statistical—United States. WA 950
P9565 2010]
RA652.2.P82P75 2010
Page 2 of 3
Title Pages
614.4—dc22
2009049403
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
Page 3 of 3
Contents
Title Pages
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
1 Historical Development
Stephen B. Thacker
2 Considerations in Planning a Surveillance System
Steven M. Teutsch
3 Economic and Policy Justification for Public Health Surveillance
David B. Rein
4 Collecting Public Health Surveillance Data: Creating a Surveillance System
M. Kathleen Glynn, and Lorraine C. Backer
5 Informatics and the Management of Surveillance Data
Ramesh S. Krishnamurthy, and Michael E. St. Louis
6 Analyzing and Interpreting Public Health Surveillance Data
Patrick S. Sullivan, Matthew T. McKenna, Lance A. Waller, G. David Williamson, and Lisa M. Lee
7 Communicating Public Health Surveillance Information for Action
Patrick L. Remington, and David E. Nelson
8 Evaluating Public Health Surveillance
Samuel L. Groseclose, Robert R. German, and Peter Nsubuga
9 Ethics in Public Health Surveillance
Charles M. Heilig, and Patricia Sweeney
10 Legal Considerations in Public Health Surveillance in the United States
Verla S. Neslund, Richard A. Goodman, James G. Hodge, and John P. Middaugh
11 Public Health Surveillance for Infectious Diseases
Chris A. Van Beneden, and Ruth Lynfield
12 Public Health Surveillance for Chronic Diseases, Injuries, and Birth Defects
Ali H. Mokdad, Joseph L. Annest, Robin M. Ikeda, and Cara T. Mai
13 Surveillance for Determinants of Population Health
Roy Gibson Parrish, Sharon M. McDonnell, and Patrick L. Remington
14 Public Health Surveillance for Preparedness and Emergency Response: Biosurveillance for Human
Health
Daniel M. Sosin, and Richard S. Hopkins
15 Healthcare Quality and Safety: The Monitoring of Administrative Information Systems and the Interface
with Public Health Surveillance
James F. Murray, and Chesley Richards
16 PostMarket Surveillance of Medical Products in the United States
Paul J. Seligman, Thomas P. Gross, M. Miles Braun, and Janet B. Arrowsmith
17 Surveillance in LowResource Settings: Challenges and Opportunities in the Current Context of Global
Health
Michael E. St. Louis, Henry Walke, Helen Perry, Peter Nsubuga, Mark E. White, and Scott Dowell
18 State and Local Public Health Surveillance in the United States
Guthrie S. Birkhead, and Christopher M. Maylahn
19 Public Health Workforce Needs for Surveillance
Denise Koo, and Herman Tolentino
20 Evolving Challenges and Opportunities in Public Health Surveillance
Lisa M. Lee, and Stephen B. Thacker
End Matter
Index
(p.v) Foreword
University Press Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
Principles & Practice of Public Health
Surveillance
Lisa M. Lee, Steven M. Teutsch, Stephen B. Thacker, and Michael E. St. Louis
Print publication date: 2010
Print ISBN-13: 9780195372922
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372922.001.0001
(p.v) Foreword
The first edition of this book traced the history of surveillance
back to the origins of human history through the critical
contributions of Alexander Langmuir at the Communicable
Disease Center. The second edition was expanded to explore
five other aspects of surveillance—the basic role of
surveillance in public health practice, risk factor surveillance,
the public health approach of observing all of life to separate
out the patterns that lead to pathology and those that lead to
wholeness, the then emerging digital revolution, and the
trends of globalization provide compelling reasons for
developing useful and workable surveillance networks.
This edition examines further the developments in public
health surveillance following the bombing of the World Trade
Center in New York City, enhanced surveillance for disease
determinants, and environmental tracking. Public health
preparedness has both challenged and strengthened public
health surveillance; new chapters in this edition outline the
important relationship between these two public health
priorities. In addition, expansion of the tools of informatics
and access to data from sources outside of public health have
both increased dramatically the potential for better
surveillance and forced us to look at the changing role of
Page 1 of 2
(p.v) Foreword
public health surveillance in the context of the demand for
situation awareness in close to real-time.
Throughout this edition, the editors collect strong evidence
that in the midst of many changes and opportunities, public
health surveillance has maintained its foundational
disciplinary integrity, while adapting to the needs of an
increasingly complex field of public health. This third edition
provides an excellent framework for all of us to strengthen
public health by collectively improving the surveillance
foundation. Our thanks to the editors for that effort.
William H. Foege, MD, MPH
David Sencer, MD, MPH ([Link])
Page 2 of 2
([Link]) Preface
University Press Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
Principles & Practice of Public Health
Surveillance
Lisa M. Lee, Steven M. Teutsch, Stephen B. Thacker, and Michael E. St. Louis
Print publication date: 2010
Print ISBN-13: 9780195372922
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372922.001.0001
([Link]) Preface
When the first and second editions of Principles and Practice
of Public Health Surveillance were published in 1994 and
2000, there existed few fundamental resources on public
health surveillance. Since then, a handful of graduate schools
of public health have developed courses on surveillance
methods, primarily driven by faculty interest in the topic. A
number of textbooks have been published about specific topic
areas in public health surveillance. Still, in 2010, there
remains only one comprehensive text on the science of public
health surveillance, and here we offer the third edition of that
text.
In the decade since the second edition, many developments
have transformed the landscape of public health surveillance.
There have been increasing demands on surveillance data,
resulting in rapid growth of the field. These developments
include the addition of preparedness- and response-related
surveillance; enhanced surveillance for disease determinants,
including social, behavioral, risk factor surveillance; and
environmental tracking. In addition, surveillance methods
have been used in a variety of non-public health settings, such
as health-care practices to provide a way of ranking or grading
services, blurring the lines between methods and practice. The
broader use of surveillance methods has brought us back to
Page 1 of 4
([Link]) Preface
the table to consider the definition of public health
surveillance—to remind ourselves of first principles of routine
collection, analysis, and communication of data for public
health action.
Surveillance information has played an increasingly important
role in decision making—from funding appropriation and
allocation to program development and evaluation.
Exacerbated by the events of September 11, 2001, there has
been increased demand for “health situation awareness” that
requires public health officials to possess broad knowledge of
health status indicators across the health horizon, keeping a
keen eye for emerging threats, natural or otherwise. These
events changed the context in which public health surveillance
is practiced. They have required public health departments at
all levels to consider properly locating and understanding the
contributions of public health surveillance amidst emergency
management organizations. Additionally, the monumental
advances in information technology and the emerging field of
informatics have the potential to reshape the way health data
are collected, collated, managed, analyzed, distributed, and
communicated. Leveraging efficiencies in this arena will be
critical for limited public health surveillance budgets.
([Link]) Even with an agile response to the numerous changes
listed above, challenges for public health surveillance remain.
How does public health surveillance as a discipline fit under
the most broadly conceived umbrella of comprehensive
“health awareness?” How is public health surveillance
different from the unstructured scanning and data-mining of
electronic databases, or is it? Are all health data collections
“surveillance?” If not, what is the common vocabulary or
taxonomy for characterizing public health data collections?
How is surveillance different from research? What protections
should be afforded data collected by public health surveillance
systems? Answers to these questions are incomplete, but the
chapters in this text provide a thoughtful start to the field’s
movement forward.
What has remained constant is the foundational science of
public health surveillance. These principles can be described
in five overarching domains of public health surveillance
Page 2 of 4
([Link]) Preface
methods: (1) system development and data collection; (2)
data management and information integration; (3) data
analysis and interpretation; (4) communication of findings for
public health action; and (5) evaluation of the surveillance
system itself. Each of these domains makes use of a variety of
scientific disciplines from traditional fields like epidemiology
and laboratory sciences to more recent additions to the public
health repertoire like economics and informatics.
This edition touches on each of these important factors—the
history, principles, practice, and future challenges of public
health surveillance. The sections of the text are arranged
around these ideas, providing updated chapters on ethics and
evaluation, a new chapter outlining the economic and policy
justification for public health surveillance, and a new section
on the practice of public health surveillance, which includes
chapters that demonstrate the principles in action. We
conclude the text by outlining some of the remaining
challenges.
We express our deepest appreciation to the authors and
editors of the first and second editions of the text who laid the
foundation for this updated and expanded edition. We are
eternally grateful to the contributors and authors to this
edition, without whose time and expertise this project would
not have been possible. We thank the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Chief Science Officer, Dr.
Tanja Popovic, for her support of this project. We recognize
numerous colleagues at the Los Angeles County Department of
Public Health and throughout CDC who served as our
“laboratories” for many of the ideas contained in the book; in
particular, we thank members of CDC’s surveillance and
situation awareness work group—Henry Falk, Rita Helfand,
Rima Khabbaz, Denise Koo, Steve Solomon, Daniel Sosin, and
Kathleen Toomey. Finally, we extend our appreciation to
public health surveillance colleagues in state and local health
departments and ministries of health across the globe who
carry out this critical and challenging work.
Lisa M. Lee, PhD Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Steven M. Teutsch, MD, MPH Los Angeles, California, USA
Page 3 of 4
([Link]) Preface
Stephen B. Thacker, MD, MSc Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Michael E. St. Louis, MD Atlanta, Georgia, USA
March, 2010
Page 4 of 4
([Link]) Contributors
University Press Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
Principles & Practice of Public Health
Surveillance
Lisa M. Lee, Steven M. Teutsch, Stephen B. Thacker, and Michael E. St. Louis
Print publication date: 2010
Print ISBN-13: 9780195372922
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372922.001.0001
([Link]) Contributors
At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, GA
Joseph L. Annest, PhD, MS
Director, Office of Statistics and Programming
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Lorraine C. Backer, PhD, MPH
Team Leader
National Center For Environmental Health
Scott F. Dowell, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Global Disease Detection and
Emergency Response
Center for Global Health
Robert R. German, DrPH, MPH
Lead Epidemiologist, Cancer Surveillance Branch
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
Richard A. Goodman, MD, JD, MPH
Co-Chief, Public Health Law Branch
Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial
Support
M. Kathleen Glynn, DVM, MPVM
Veterinary Epidemiologist
Page 1 of 7
([Link]) Contributors
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic
Infectious Diseases
Samuel L. Groseclose, DVM, MPH
Chief, Statistics and Data Management Branch
Division of STD Prevention
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD,
and TB Prevention
Charles M. Heilig, PhD
Lead Methodologist
Division of TB Elimination
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD,
and TB Prevention
and
Senior Advisor for Human Research Ethics
Office of the Associate Director for Science
Robin M. Ikeda, MD, MPH
Deputy Director, Noncommunicable Diseases,
Injury and Environmental Health Office of the
Director
Denise Koo, MD, MPH
Acting Director
Scientific Education and Professional Development
Program Office
Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
Laboratory Services
Ramesh S. Krishnamurthy, PhD, MPH
Senior Informatics Advisor
Global AIDS Program
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD,
and TB Prevention
([Link]) Lisa M. Lee, PhD
Chief Science Officer
Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
Laboratory Services
Cara T. Mai, MPH
Public Health Analyst
National Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities
Matthew T. McKenna, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
Page 2 of 7
([Link]) Contributors
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion
Verla S. Neslund, JD
Vice President for Programs
CDC Foundation
Peter Nsubuga, MD, MPH
Chief, Capacity Development Branch
Division of Global Public Health Capacity
Development
Center for Global Health
Helen Perry, PhD
Public Health Educator
Division of Emerging Infections and Surveillance
Services
National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and
Control of Infectious Diseases
Chesley Richards, MD, MPH
Acting Director, Office of Prevention through
Healthcare
Office of the Director
Daniel M. Sosin, MD, MPH, FACP
Acting Director
Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
Michael E. St. Louis, MD
Associate Director for Science
Center for Global Health
Patricia Sweeney, MPH
Epidemiologist
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD,
and TB Prevention
Stephen B. Thacker, MD, MSc
Deputy Director for Surveillance, Epidemiology,
and Laboratory Services
Office of the Director
Herman D. Tolentino, MD
Director, Public Health Informatics Fellowship
Program
Scientific Education and Professional Development
Program Office
Page 3 of 7
