Public health surveillance
THE CONTINUOUS, SYSTEMATIC COLLECTION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF HEALTH-RELATED DATA NEEDED FOR THE PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE
Clinical Surveillance; Syndromic survelliance; Syndromic surveillance; Syndromic Surveillance; Public Health Surveillance; Product surveillance, postmarketing; Epidemiological surveillance; Epidemiologic surveillance; Clinical surveillance; Active surveillance study
Public health surveillance (also epidemiological surveillance, clinical surveillance or syndromic surveillance) is, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), "the continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data needed for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice."Public health surveillance, World Health Organization (accessed January 14, 2016).