The public health basis for surveillance of infectious intestinal disease in Ireland

Paul McKeown

The public health basis for surveillance of infectious intestinal disease in Ireland

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Paul McKeown

Paul McKeown National Disease Surveillance Centre, Gastroenteric Unit, Middle Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland, Paul.McKeown@ndsc.ie

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Pages:: 239–256

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-534-5_016

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Describing health accurately is the first step in its improvement. Information for health comes from many sources - surveillance is one of these. Surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, collation and interpretation of data and the dissemination of information to those who need to know in order that action may be taken. Enhanced surveillance and research are the other two cardinal sources of information on foodborne illness. Surveillance is the information for action; information should ideally flow in a circle. Information is collected and is used to provide knowledge to inform policy which should be used to drive improvement. Closing the information circle by ongoing monitoring is important to ensure that information is being put to the best possible use. This is one of the bases for development of evidence-based policy. In Ireland, part of the evidence in support of control policies comes from human disease surveillance sources, including statutorily notifiable diseases, enhanced surveillance, sentinel surveillance, community surveys, outbreak surveillance schemes and from research, Irish and international. Recent evidence has pointed to the importance of emerging foodborne diseases. WHO has identified Salmonella enteritidis, cholera, Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes, foodborne trematodes and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) as being important emerging threats to global food safety. Early warning provided by effective surveillance is the most effective way of minimising harm from emerging infectious disease.

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Risk management strategies: monitoring and surveillance

Series: ECVPH Food safety assurance, Volume: 3

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086865345

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2004

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