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Investigative Techniques > Epidemiologic Methods > Sentinel Surveillance
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Sentinel Surveillance
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Sentinel Surveillance
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Sentinel Surveillance
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Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Population Surveillance > Sentinel Surveillance

Preferred term

Sentinel Surveillance  

Definition(s)

  • Monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific conditions to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population. It is also the study of disease rates in a specific cohort such as in a geographic area or population subgroup to estimate trends in a larger population. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)

Broader concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • Biosurveillance System
  • Biosurveillance Systems
  • Surveillance, Sentinel
  • Syndromic Surveillance

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR/M0027837

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