Section outline

  • Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the distinction between descriptive and analytic methods, and their utility in surveillance and outbreak investigations.
    • Know how to interpret data for measures of association and common statistical tests.
    • Recognize the applications and limitations of current public health surveillance practices.
    • Be familiar with federal public health surveillance system.
    • Understand the reciprocal pathways of data exchange through country, state, and federal surveillance efforts.
    • Recognize the major components of surveillance data analysis.