1. Identify your contagious illness. DO NOT DO
2. Describe the factors that make it contagious and describe the symptoms. DO NOT DO
3. What would you want to consider when thinking about setting up your surveillance system?
4. Which surveillance system would be best to use — passive, active, rumor, syndromic, and sentinel. DO NOT DO
5. Would you use GIS to help? DO NOT DO
6. Who are your risk groups? DO NOT DO
7. How would you in theory set it up, what would you look for? (This is your implementation plan).
8. How will you communicate the presence of this illness in the school to parents? DO NOT DO
9. What will be included in this communication? DO NOT DO
ONLY DO QUESTIONS 3 &7 AS I WILL HAVE DONE THE REST.
I HAVE ADDED THE CHAPTER FROM THE BOOK IN THE FILES TO USE AS REFERENCE AND ALSO PLEASE USE THE LINKS PROVIDED TO ANDWER THE TWO QUESTIONS WITH PROPER APA CITATION
Be creative!
Please use your text, the CDC website and any other information relating to public health surveillance. This is more of a theory and what would be “ideal”.
Since many of you have children in school, you may have experience in how your child’s school handled surveillance for a contagious illness.