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Epidemiology Program Comprehensive Surveillance Reports
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - April 2012
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - March 2012
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - February 2012
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - January 2012
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - December 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - November 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - October 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - September 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - June 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - May 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - April 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - March 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - February 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - January 2011
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - December 2010
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - November 2010
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - October 2010
Epidemiology Surveillance Report - September 2010
The 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic presented a tremendous learning experience for public health and its partners. One pinnacle lesson which became dramatically evident during the response was the need to rapidly and effectively communicate important health information to the healthcare community and population as a whole. More specifically, public health surveillance data became an integral part of clinical decision making at the state and local level, and it became imperative that up-to-date, accurate information were in the hands of the people who needed it. This fact translates into all areas of public health including: vaccine preventable disease outbreaks, product recalls due to food-borne illness reports, seasonal respiratory virus surveillance, arboviral illnesses, antibiotic resistance trends, enteric disease activity, and a myriad of other areas encompassing both chronic and acute disease epidemiology.
The DCHD Epidemiology Program Comprehensive Surveillance Report was created out of the need to routinely communicate public health information to community providers. These reports combine data from various public health monitoring systems within Duval County and Florida. These data are routinely reviewed and analyzed, trends are identified, and potential outbreaks are detected. The report, prepared monthly, serves as a summary of these findings. Each report contains a summary of recent trends, an overview of a highlighted investigation, a table of recently reported diseases for the county and state, as well information regarding a variety of notifiable diseases and conditions.
More About Public Health Surveillance
Surveillance is a key core public health function and has been defined as the regular collection, meaningful analysis, and routine dissemination of relevant data for providing opportunities for public health action to prevent and control disease. Surveillance is done for many reasons such as identifying cases of diseases posing immediate risk to communities, detecting clusters and monitoring trends of disease that may represent outbreaks, evaluating control and prevention measures and developing hypotheses for emerging diseases.
Within Duval County, surveillance data is obtained through:
- Reports of notifiable diseases and conditions by providers (Merlin) Reportable Diseases
- Laboratory data from the Bureau of Laboratories
- Emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance as monitored through Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE)
- Florida Poison Information Center Network (FPICN)
- ILInet Sentinel Provider Influenza Surveillance
- School Absenteeism
- Passive reports from the community
- Notifiable diseases
- Outbreaks
Duval County Health Department
900 University Blvd. N.
Jacksonville, FL 32211
253-1000
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