National Public Health Surveillance in China: Implications for Public Health in China and the United States

作     者：YANG GONG-HUAN DONNA F. STROUP AND STEPHEN B. THACKER (Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, 27 Nan Wei Rd., Beijing 100050, China Epidemiology Program Office (Mail Stop C08 ),Centers for Disease Control 

作者机构：Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine Beijing China. 

出 版 物：《Biomedical and Environmental Sciences》 (生物医学与环境科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：1997年第10卷第1期

页      面：1-13页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 120402[管理学-社会医学与卫生事业管理(可授管理学、医学学位)] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：CDC 

摘      要：Study Objective:Throughout the world, political developments have brought new demands to communities to prevent and intervene in the incidence of infectious and noninfectious ***, these developments have required new and more effective public health surveillance ac tivities. This report describes public health surveillance practice in the People s Republic of China,making comparisons with selected aspects of surveillance in the United States with respect to collec tion, analysis, diasemination, and use of data. Main results: In both the People s Republic of China and the United States, political change has affected health, and multiple surveillance system are used in public health practice. Surveillance of acute infectious diseases based on the reporting of legally notifiable diseases and the use of vital records for surveillance have the longest established history in both countries. In both countries, da ta from the surveillance systems have been used to affect public health ***: In comparing surveillance practices in there countries, we find similarities in con ditions reported and in the dissemination of the data. At the same time, legal, aseial, cultural, and economic differences between the nations have affected the practice of surveillance in analysis and evaluation. We make explicit recommendations for improvement and evaluation of systems in both countries including sentinel surveillance system and data quality measures in China and computer networking and data analysis in the United States