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Descriptor English: Public Health Surveillance
Descriptor Spanish: Vigilancia en Salud Pública
Descriptor vigilancia en salud pública
Entry term(s) vigilancia de la salud
vigilancia de la salud pública
vigilancia en salud
Scope note: Proceso continuo de obtención, análisis e interpretación sistemáticos de datos relacionados con la salud con la finalidad de prevenir o controlar lesiones o enfermedades o para identificar acontecimientos inhabituales de importancia en la salud pública, seguido de la difusión y empleo de la información para actuar en salud pública.(Traducción libre del original: Am J Prev Med 2011;41(6):636)
Descriptor Portuguese: Vigilância em Saúde Pública
Descriptor French: Surveillance de la santé publique
Entry term(s): Surveillance, Public Health
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.980.438.700.324
N05.715.360.300.800.438.625.324
N06.850.520.308.980.438.700.324
N06.850.780.675.487
SP8.570.747.231.996
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D062486
Scope note: The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data with the purpose of preventing or controlling disease or injury, or of identifying unusual events of public health importance, followed by the dissemination and use of information for public health action. (From Am J Prev Med 2011;41(6):636)
Allowable Qualifiers: MT methods
Public MeSH Note: 2013; see Population Surveillance 1990-2012
History Note: 2013, use Population Surveillance 1990-2012
Related: Health Surveillance DeCS
DeCS ID: 55053
Unique ID: D062486
NLM Classification: WA 950
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2013/01/01
Date of Entry: 2012/07/03
Revision Date: 2017/07/03
Public Health Surveillance - Preferred
Concept UI M0568487
Scope note The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data with the purpose of preventing or controlling disease or injury, or of identifying unusual events of public health importance, followed by the dissemination and use of information for public health action. (From Am J Prev Med 2011;41(6):636)
Preferred term Public Health Surveillance
Entry term(s) Surveillance, Public Health



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