SPH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report, Measles, Collet
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Role of communnication, community, and government in public health: vaccine preventable. In ph perspective is systematic, ongoing collection mgmt, analysis, and interpretation of data. Followed by dissemination of these data to ph programs to stimulate ph action. If you just collect it doesn"t make a difference. Part of monitoring health ph core activities. Happens at global, national, state and local level. How many cases and what types are being reported. Type of virus so they can be sure the next influenza vaccine will be tailored to the flu/virus they"re expecting to be causing infection for the next year. Detect by looking at different patterns globally. Coming on, but we had announced that we eliminated measles in 2000 and it has slowly creeped up (big peak in 2014)disneyland outbreak. Little pockets in our countries where people are not immunized for measles and susceptible to disease.
