Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: April-June | Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 119-127
Concepts of Public Health Surveillance to Support Infectious Disease Cluster Control Efforts in Rural Rajasthan, India
GV Fant
Visiting Professor, Public Health (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Jodhpur School of Public Health (JSPH); Executive Director, Society for Epidemiology at JSPH;
Practicing public health epidemiologist in Northern Virginia, USA
ABSTRACT
As previously reported, the high number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Rajasthan, India, is a concern. Given the current situation, this is an appropriate time to review the concepts of public health surveillance to assist in epidemiologic efforts in response to infectious disease outbreaks. In the past five years, a search of Google Scholar did not reveal the existence of published works detailing the concepts of a public health surveillance for use in rural Rajasthan. This paper is the second part of a review of concepts that could help in the preparation of a response to infectious disease outbreaks in Rajasthan. The purpose of this review is to succinctly describe the main concepts of public health surveillance for public health emergency professionals and community leaders responding to any infectious disease outbreak in Rajasthan. This paper is the second part of a published review paper entitled “Concepts of field epidemiology in preparation for response to infectious disease outbreak in rural Rajasthan, India” in International Journal of Science & Healthcare Research. 2020; 5(2): 47-55.
Keywords: Public Health Surveillance; Data Sources; Public Health Epidemiologist; Data Collection Systems; Epidemiologic Statistical Measures; Odds Ratio