title: [What is surveillance?].
abstract: The authors give an account of the development of the definition and context of epidemiological surveillance during the past decades in Czechoslovakia and in the world. They analyze views of epidemiologists who contributed in a major way to the modern concept of surveillance. The concept of surveillance reflects social conditions in the widest sense of the word and its contents are and probably will also in future be the subject of lively discussions. The authors assume that in the near future a more important part will be played by an active approach to surveillance of infections, as no modern system of health care can do without its development. Contemporary social changes will play a decisive role.
authors: Institut hygieny a epidemiologie, Praha.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Stanek
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Benes
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Eliás
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance
vernacular_title: Co je surveillance?