Presumably this project involves epidemiological surveillance of targeted diseases.
if you write surveillance of target diseases then diseases will be already decided by you so the question what diseases does not validate. Regarding epidemiological data you can add gender ,age,time duration , and area wise distribution of your target diseases
Diseases included under Surveilannce is depending on country priority Diseases
There are criteria for disease under Surveilance
1.having epidemic potential
2. Having public health importance
3. Diseases of international concerned or IHR
4. Having means of prevention and control
5. Diseases under eliminations and eradication
The main objective of analysis is to early response
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It has been rightly said that targeted surveillance means surveillance over a particular or specific diseases. Hence,It is better to mention surveillance or epidemiological study either ( which is a broader term) in order to cover the diseases of your interest.
Moreover regarding data analysis, you can study over prevalence based on specific geographical location, Gender wise and Age wise. If your study period is bit long say for upto a year you can go for the the temporal pattern and spatial distribution of various/specific diseases or infection. A GIS software may be useful for mapping.
Epidemiology, by definition pertains to "human populations". The project in question deals purely with surveillance of animal diseases. We need to be clear whethre any Zoonoses of human public health importance are included in this project.
Epidemiology is not restricted to human disease; it applies to all diseases, irrespective of the host. This discussion pertains to "designing animal health sur6veillance programs."
Actually Mr. Balwar is very correct in respect to the term Epidemiology, which by scientific defination is restricted to human population only but later the defination was more refined and made precise to include the diseases having zoonotic potential also means diseases shared by both man and animals as Mr. Balwar had clearly mentioned about? But for ease, in general we use both the term epidemiology and epizootiology interchangeably.
I think Mr David Scarfe need to make some elaboration on his question. Does he talk about surveillance or epidemiological surveys. Only if this made clear, one would be able to help
At the core of all epidemiology is understanding the occurence and distribution of any disease/s of interest. Surveillance (looking for the disease/s), disease surveys (obtainin and intepreting reliable disease distribution data) and monitoring disease status (of an epidemiological unit) over time are pivotal to making sense of whether disease are present or not. This is overly simplistic explination, and there are a number of complex processes behind each of these. To fully understand these, I recommend reading some basic epidemiology books.
I do agree with you Scarfe, However, surveillance is continuing watchfulness of disease occurrence?changes over time in a given population, gathering of data, analysis of data and preparing appropriate actions. In all these epidemiological principles and methods are used.
Dear David, this project is about the development and application of a tool which could be used with any type of diseases, according to the user needscollagues. We have used it with many different case studies, covering a range of species and disease types , including zoonotic diseases and AMR surveillance for exemple. Please visit the tool website and linked wikispace RISKSUR website (http://www.fp7-risksur.euand )for more information
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