Surveillance. SURVEILLANCES . Caution, care and prevention. Control and measurement of some parameters defined as indicators of a specific risk or a disaster. (Free translation from the original: Material III - Ministério da Ação Social, Brasília, 1992) . 1.00
/epidemiology. /endemics . /epidemics . /frequency . /incidence . /morbidity . /occurrence . /outbreaks . /prevalence . /surveillance . Used with human and veterinary diseases for the distribution of disease, factors which cause disease, and the attributes of disease in defined populations; includes incidence, frequency, prevalence, endemic and epidemic outbreaks; also surveys and estimates of morbidity in geographic areas and in specified populations. Used also with geographical headings for the location of epidemiologic aspects of a disease. Excludes mortality for which "mortality" is used. . 1.00
Health Surveillance. Health Control . Sanitary Surveillance . Sanitary Vigilance . Sanitation Vigilance . A set of measures that are capable of eliminating, reducing or preventing health risks and of intervening in sanitation problems resulting from the environment, production and transportation of goods and the rendering of services that are of interest to health. Note: Health surveillance (or sanitation, or vigilance) includes: (i) control of consumption goods that are directly or indirectly related to health, in all stages of production and consumption; (ii) control over the rending of services that are directly or indirectly related to health (Law 8080 of September 19, 1990, Brazil). . 0.80
Sentinel Surveillance. Biosurveillance Systems . Syndromic Surveillance . Biosurveillance System . Health Event, Sentinel . Surveillance, Sentinel . Surveillance, Syndromic . Sentinel Health Event . Monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific conditions to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population. It is also the study of disease rates in a specific cohort such as in a geographic area or population subgroup to estimate trends in a larger population. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed) . 0.79
