Measures involved in sentinel surveillance includes 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 repoed to the health system, For Eg., 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; For eg., Stool sample collection from home in polio program Sentinel Surveillance: Monitoring Of rate of occurence of specific condition to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population, It is also the study of disease rates in a specific coho, geographical area, population subgroup etc,, to estimate trends in larger population; For e.g., Use of health practitioner to monitor trends of a health event in a population. Sentinel Surveillance helps in " Identifying missing cases" and " Suggesting notified cases". Most of the national health programmes in India rely on passive surveillance for morbidity and moality data collection. Active Surveillance: Is seen in NVBDCP (Health worker goes house to house every fonight to detect fever cases, collect blood slides and provide presumptive treatment under malaria component) and National Leprosy Elimination Programme (modified Leprosy Elimination Campaigns) Sentinel Surveillance: Is done in National AIDS Control Programme wherein STD clinics, ANC clinics have been identified as sentinel sites to monitor trends of HIV/AIDS in the country. Ref: Park 25th edition Pgno: 47
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