HIV disease surveillance. Collaboration between medicine and public health.
Public Health Surveillance is critical to the management of programs designed to control the epidemic of HIV-AIDS. Surveillance defines changing trends, helps to formulate preventive initiatives and evaluate their effectiveness, and to allocate resources. Collaboration between clinical medicine and public health is essential to achieve reliable surveillance.
Paul
Sindy M
SM
Division of AIDS Prevention and Control, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, USA.
Cross
Helene
H
Dimasi
Linda
L
Ibrahim
Abdel R
AR
Grasso
Carmine J
CJ
D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018563:Disease Notification; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009515:New Jersey / Q000453:epidemiology; D011159:Population Surveillance