WHO Recommended Surveillance Standards (WHO - OMS, 1999, 157 p.): (introduction...)

WHO Recommended Surveillance Standards (WHO - OMS, 1999, 157 p.)

		*(introduction...)*
		Acknowledgements
		Acronyms
		Introduction
		National Coordination of Communicable Disease Surveillance
		Explanatory notes
		Surveillance activities: criteria and WHO Department
		Communicable disease contacts in Regional Offices
		Diseases
		Syndromes
		Annex 1 Software free and in the public domain
		Annex 2 Proposed surveillance definitions
		Annex 3 Role and use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping for epidemiological surveillance

(introduction...)

Second edition - October 1999

This document has been produced jointly by technical programmes in WHO and by UNAIDS

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Department of Communicable Disease
Surveillance and Response

WHO/CDS/CSR/ISR/99.2
Distr.: General
Original: English

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