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Pennsylvania Infectious Disease Surveillance Summary Report, 2007
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| Title: | Pennsylvania Infectious Disease Surveillance Summary Report, 2007 |
| Authors: | Mahan, Jessica Linn |
| Keywords: | Infectious Disease
Surveillance
Public Health
Pennsylvania |
| Issue Date: | 21-Aug-2009 |
| Abstract: | Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of
outcome-specific health data for purposes of improving health and safety. The timely
dissemination of these data to those responsible for preventing and controlling illness and injury
are key to public health surveillance. An Infectious Disease Surveillance Summary Report can
provide healthcare organizations and providers, government and regulatory agencies, and other
concerned individuals and groups with important statistical information about potentially
preventable diseases. The Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA-DOH) has not published an
Infectious Disease Surveillance Summary Report since 1993. Without a published report
containing epidemiologic analysis of the raw count data, the healthcare community, the general
public, and state policymakers lack the important information necessary for setting public health
priorities. This project consistedof secondary data analysis on several de-identified datasets
provided by the PA-DOH. The data were obtained through mandatory notifiable disease
reporting laws and collected via the Pennsylvania Notifiable Electronic Disease Surveillance
System (PA-NEDSS). Subjects were Pennsylvania residents who incurred a reportable
infectious disease for which they sought medical treatment from 2003 through 2007. A concise
and comprehensive annual report was created for the PA-DOH using these datasets. This annual
report includes the 2007 case count, 2007 incidence rate, 5-year (2003−2007) average case
count, and 5-year (2003−2007) average incidence rate for each of the notifiable communicable
diseases in Pennsylvania. In addition, the report provides disease summaries, including
descriptive epidemiology, and epidemiological trend information for selected notifiable diseases
from 2003−2007. Further, the high-profile outbreak investigations that were conducted by the
PA-DOH in 2007 were detailed in the report. The 2007 PennsylvaniaInfectious Disease
Surveillance Summary Report will serve as a convenient and accessible summary of data by
providing a snapshot of the patterns of disease in the state. The report also provides an
assessment of the efforts undertaken by the PA-DOH Division of Infectious Disease
Epidemiology and highlights their annual accomplishments. In addition, the annual report is an
important reflection of the hard work and vigilance of healthcare providers and staff at
laboratories and hospitals throughout the state. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/3085 |
| Appears in Collections: | Health Sciences Theses and Dissertations
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