Book chapter
HIV and AIDS Surveillance: Public Health Lessons Learned
Dawning Answers
26 Dec 2002
Abstract
To prevent and control specific diseases, public health has an ongoing need to monitor trends in the occurrence and characteristics of particular health problems. This process is called “public health surveillance,” and the structures and procedures used to conduct this monitoring are called “surveillance systems.” Typically, surveillance efforts grow from ad hoc systems developed in response to the recognition of new problems to more elaborate systems that evolve as prevention and control programs are established (1). This is indeed the case with surveillance systems aimed at monitoring the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV/ AIDS surveillance has included not only monitoring the various stages of HIV infection and associated diseases, including AIDS, but also monitoring the behaviors that place individuals at risk for infection, as well as the use of preventive or treatment services by those at risk for, or already infected with, HIV.
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- Title
- HIV and AIDS Surveillance: Public Health Lessons Learned
- Creators
- James W. Buehler
- Contributors
- Ronald O. Valdiserri (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Dawning Answers
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; New York, NY
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Other Identifier
- 991021895675204721