RT Book, Section A1 Simon, Paul A. A1 Teutsch, Steven M. A2 Boulton, Matthew L. A2 Wallace, Robert B. SR Print(0) ID 1182681554 T1 Public Health Surveillance T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259644511 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182681554 RD 2024/03/28 AB Public health surveillance is the cornerstone of public health practice, generating vital information for decision-making in nearly all aspects of public health work. Public health surveillance has been defined as “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 [timely] dissemination of these data to those who need to know and linked to prevention and control.”1 Important in this definition is the requirement that surveillance activities be closely aligned with public health actions to prevent and control disease, promote population health, and reduce health inequities.