Case definitions in public health.

Case definitions for public health surveillance.

Epidemic cholera in Latin America, 1991-1993: implications of case definitions used for public health surveillance.

This report presents the various cholera case definitions used by the affected countries of Latin America, shows the numbers of cholera cases and deaths attributable to cholera (as reported by Latin American countries to PAHO through 1993), and describes some regional trends in cholera incidence. The information about how cholera cases were defined was obtained from an October 1993 PAHO questio...

Reliability of case definitions for public health surveillance assessed by Round-Robin test methodology

BACKGROUND Case definitions have been recognized to be important elements of public health surveillance systems. They are to assure comparability and consistency of surveillance data and have crucial impact on the sensitivity and the positive predictive value of a surveillance system. The reliability of case definitions has rarely been investigated systematically. METHODS We conducted a Round...

Definitions for public health nutrition: a developing consensus.

OBJECTIVES To assess the level of agreement amongst a panel of public health nutrition leaders regarding the key descriptors used to define the field of public health nutrition. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey requiring quantitative and qualitative responses representing the first round of a consensus development Delphi technique. SETTING International. SUBJECTS Expert panel of 24 public he...

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...