Measures involved in sentinel surveillance include all except
Correct Answer: Identifying cases free of disability
Description: Surveillance: Is the ongoing systematic collection and analysis of data and the provision of information which leads to action being taken to prevent and control a disease, usually one of an infectious nature
Surveillance is of many types:
Passive Surveillance: Data is itself reported to the health system; For e.g., A patient with fever coming on his own to the PHC, CHC, Dispensary, Private Practitioner, Hospital
Active Surveillance: Health system seeks out ‘actively’ the collection of data, i.e., goes out to community to collect data; For e.g., Stool sample collection from home in Polio Program.
Sentinel Surveillance: Monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific conditions to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population, It is also the study of disease rates in a specific cohort, geographic area, population subgroup, etc. to estimate trends in larger population; For e.g., Use of health practitioners to monitor trends of a health event in a population
Sentinel Surveillance helps in ‘identifying missing cases’ and ‘supplementing notified cases’
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