5 |
7.0 |
Index |
1.1.5 |
1.0 |
HSS |
Health Security Surveillance |
1.0 |
PHSEI |
Health Surveillance & EpidemiologicalĀ Investigation |
The creation, maintenance, support, and strengthening of passive and active surveillance to: identify, discover, locate, and monitor threats, disease agents, incidents, and outbreaks provide relevant information to stakeholders monitoring/investigating adverse events related to medical countermeasures. The sub-domain includes the ability to successfully expand these systems and processes in response to incidents of health significance. |
M22 |
State health department has an electronic syndromic surveillance system that can report and exchange information |
The measure indicates state health department-access to syndromic surveillance data. Syndromic surveillance enables continuous monitoring for indicators of population level changes in health status that can in turn provide early warning of hazardous events. |
ASTHO Profile V. III |
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), ASTHO Profile of State Public Health: Volume Three |
2012 & 2016 |
Data are self-reported by state public health agencypersonnel and may reflect differences in awareness, perspective and interpretation among respondents. Nevada did not complete the survey used as the original data source but they subsequently provided information for this measure. |