Principles and practice of public health surveillance / edited by Steven M. Teutsch, R. Elliott Churchill.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

xiii, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical development -- Considerations in planning a surveillance system -- Sources of health-related information -- The changing health-care information infrastructure in the United States : opportunities for a new approach to public health surveillance -- Management of the surveillance information system and quality control of data -- Descriptive epidemiology : analyzing and interpreting surveillance data -- Communicating information for action within the public health system -- Evaluating public health surveillance -- Ethical issues -- Public health surveillance and the law -- Computerizing public health surveillance systems -- State and local public health surveillance -- Public health surveillance in low- and middle-income countries -- Surveillance of quality in health care -- Post-market safety surveillance for pharmaceuticals -- Using surveillance information in communications, marketing, and advocacy.