InSTEDD: Tools for Outbreak Epidemiology

Editor's Notes

1. address these challenges by adopting a hybrid disease surveillance approach which fosters cross-disciplinary social network and open collaborative decision making approach in order to facilitate early identification of potential health threats their verification, assessment and investigation in order to recommend measures (public health and others) to control them. Indicator-based surveillance computation of indicators upon which unusual disease patterns to investigate are detected  (number of cases, rates, proportion of strains…) Event-based surveillance the detection of public health events based on the capture of ad-hoc unstructured reports issued by formal or informal sources.
2. address these challenges by adopting a hybrid disease surveillance approach which fosters cross-disciplinary social network and open collaborative decision making approach in order to facilitate early identification of potential health threats their verification, assessment and investigation in order to recommend measures (public health and others) to control them. Indicator-based surveillance computation of indicators upon which unusual disease patterns to investigate are detected  (number of cases, rates, proportion of strains…) Event-based surveillance the detection of public health events based on the capture of ad-hoc unstructured reports issued by formal or informal sources.