A comprehensive approach to risk assessment and surveillance guiding public health interventions.
Tools are required to identify 'multi-endemic' population segments - in order to benefit the most vulnerable people and to make public health interventions cost-effective. The article suggests a comprehensive risk assessment and surveillance system approach based on a combination of epidemiological, environmental and social determinants. Such a cross-disciplinary approach will combine the advantages of forecasting upcoming disease 'hot spots' with provision of evidence for long-term planning under more stable conditions, and it may in principle apply to any combination of public health problems depending on the local context.
Aagaard-Hansen
Jens
J
DBL-Centre for Health Research and Development, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark. jah@life.ku.dk
Sørensen
Birte Holm
BH
Chaignat
Claire-Lise
CL
D019353:Endemic Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D011634:Public Health; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D013029:Space-Time Clustering