How are are children growing in your community? What number of children experience food insecurity in the Pacific region? How many adults have or have ever been diagnosed with heart disease? These questions and many more are included in routine health and nutrition surveillance and monitoring systems in order to provide data that can facilitate the prevention and control of disease.
Read the following information and thoroughly review the Required Resources (readings and media) BEFORE going through the Graded Activities. Please be aware of the due dates associated with this lesson. This lesson includes three parts, you can navigate between the parts using the tabs or the “Back to Parts” button. Be sure to go through the resources and activities in ALL parts of this lesson.
Part 1
Why do we survey health and nutrition?
Required Resources
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Principles of epidemiology in public health practice: An introduction to applied epidemiology and biostatistics (3rd edition)
Read Lesson 5 Section 2: Purpose and characteristics of public health surveillance.
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Principles of epidemiology in public health practice: An introduction to applied epidemiology and biostatistics (3rd edition)
Read Lesson 5 Section 4: Identifying or collecting data for surveillance.
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Nutritional surveillance
(by JB Mason & JT Mitchell. Bulletin of the World Health Organization)