scholarly journals From the editors: European politics and communicable disease surveillance

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
European Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Highly Effective

The surveillance of communicable diseases in Europe as a whole has progressed steadily over the past few years. Several highly effective networks enable experts to interchange data and information. They have also demonstrated their ability to identify threats to the public health and have helped to ensure that effective responses have been made to those threats. The description of the outbreak of legionellosis below is an excellent example of this.

The Geographical Matrix

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Cliff ◽  
M.R. Smallman-Raynor ◽  
P. Haggett ◽  
D.F. Stroup ◽  
S.B. Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
The Times ◽  
Health Organization

A historical–geographical exploration of disease emergence is confronted by a series of fundamental questions: Which diseases have emerged? When? And where? For some high-profile diseases, such as Legionnaires’ disease, Ebola viral disease, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the first recognized outbreaks are well documented in the scientific literature and the space–time coordinates of these early events can be fixed with a high degree of certainty. But, for some other diseases—especially those that, over the decades, have periodically resurfaced as significant public health problems—the times and places of their rise to prominence can be harder to specify. Accordingly, in this chapter we undertake a content analysis of three major epidemiological sources to identify patterns in the recognition and recording of communicable diseases of public health significance in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our analysis begins, in Section 3.2, with an examination of global and world regional patterns of communicable disease surveillance as documented in the annual statistical reports of the League of Nations/World Health Organization, 1923–83. In Section 3.3, we turn to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) landmark publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) to identify ‘headline trends’ in the national and international coverage of communicable diseases, 1952–2005. Finally, in Section 3.4, the inventory of epidemic assistance investigations (Epi-Aids) undertaken by CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), 1946– 2005, provides a unique series of insights from the front line of epidemic investigative research. Informed by the evidence presented in these sections, Section 3.5 concludes by specifying the regional–thematic matrix of diseases for analysis in Chapters 4–9. The systematic international recording of information about morbidity and mortality from disease begins with the Health Organization of the League of Nations, established in the aftermath of the Great War. The first meeting of the Health Committee of the Health Section of the League took place in August 1921 to consider ‘the question of organising means of more rapid interchange of epidemiological information’ (Health Section of the League of Nations 1922: 3).

scholarly journals Notifiable diseases after implementation of COVID-19 public health prevention measures in Central Queensland, Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odewumi Adegbija ◽  
Jacina Walker ◽  
Nicholas Smoll ◽  
Arifuzzaman Khan ◽  
Julieanne Graham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
Vaccine Preventable Diseases ◽  
Notifiable Diseases ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Travel Restrictions

The implementation of public health measures to control the current COVID-19 pandemic (such as wider lockdowns, overseas travel restrictions and physical distancing) is likely to have affected the spread of other notifiable diseases. This is a descriptive report of communicable disease surveillance in Central Queensland (CQ) for six months (1 April to 30 September 2020) after the introduction of physical distancing and wider lockdown measures in Queensland. The counts of notifiable communicable diseases in CQ in the six months were observed and compared with the average for the same months during the years 2015 to 2019. During the study’s six months, there were notable decreases in notifications of most vaccine-preventable diseases such as influenza, pertussis and rotavirus. Conversely, notifications increased for disease groups such as blood-borne viruses, sexually transmitted infections and vector-borne diseases. There were no reported notifications for dengue fever and malaria which are mostly overseas acquired. The notifications of some communicable diseases in CQ were variably affected and the changes correlated with the implementation of the COVID-19 public health measures.

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Slovenia

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Klavs ◽  
A Hocevar-Grom ◽  
M Socan ◽  
M Grgic-Vitek ◽  
L Pahor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Control

National communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Slovenia is coordinated by the Communicable Diseases Centre of the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Latvia

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Bormane ◽  
I Lucenko ◽  
J Perevoščikovs
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
And Control

The Latvian public health service dates back to 1947. The Sanitary Epidemiological Service, created in Soviet times, provided two main functions – assessment of health risk factors, including surveillance of communicable diseases, and inspection.

scholarly journals Milkborne general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease, England and Wales, 1992–2000

2003 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. GILLESPIE ◽  
G. K. ADAK ◽  
S. J. O'BRIEN ◽  
F. J. BOLTON
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Intestinal Disease ◽  
Significant Morbidity ◽  
Infectious Intestinal Disease ◽  
Laboratory Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unpasteurized Milk

From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2000, 27 milkborne general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease (IID) were reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC). These outbreaks represented a fraction (2%) of all outbreaks of foodborne origin (N=1774) reported to CDSC, but were characterized by significant morbidity. Unpasteurized milk (52%) was the most commonly reported vehicle of infection in milkborne outbreaks, with milk sold as pasteurized accounting for the majority of the rest (37%). Salmonellas (37%), Vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157 (33%) and campylobacters (26%) were the most commonly detected pathogens, and most outbreaks were linked to farms (67%). This report highlights the importance of VTEC O157 as a milkborne pathogen and the continued role of unpasteurized milk in human disease.

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Cyprus

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Poyiadji-Kalakouta
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
And Control

The Medical and Public Health Services of the Ministry of Health of Cyprus have recently developed a new Network for the Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases

scholarly journals Temporal cluster of wound botulism in the United Kingdom

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
S O’Brien ◽  
Alasdair Reid ◽  
A C de Benoist
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Laboratory Service ◽  
Wound Botulism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Temporal Cluster ◽  
The United Kingdom

Five clinical cases of wound botulism have been reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre and the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health since the beginning of February 2002 (1,2).

scholarly journals Communicable disease surveillance, prevention and control in Lithuania

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Rokaite ◽  
N Kupreviciene
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Health Centre ◽  
And Control

The Lithuanian Centre for Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control (CCDPC, Užkreciamuju ligu profilaktikos ir kontroles centras) in Vilnius was established in 1997 after the reorganisation of the State Immunisation Centre and the Department of Communicable Diseases at the State Public Health Centre

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