In this video we take a brief look at surveillance – the eyes and ears of public health. We’ll have a look at passive, active, sentinel, rumour and syndromic surveillance. We’ll also have a look at the characteristics of a good surveillance system.

This video was created by Ranil Appuhamy
Voiceover James Clark

For more information about surveillance have a look at these websites:

https://www.cdc.gov/surveillancepract...
https://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/s...
http://www.who.int/topics/public_heal...
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/data...
https://www.promedmail.org/









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