Public Health Surveillance Definitions

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Across
  1. 1. in epidemiology, set of criteria used in making a decision as to whether an individual has a disease or health event of interest.
  2. 4. a system of organizing data during an outbreak
  3. 5. This shows symptoms but no lab confirmation.
  4. 7. This looks at exposure to risk.
  5. 9. acronym for the Public Health Agency of Canada
  6. 10. This is a case that meets all criteria.
  7. 12. the art or act of identifying a disease from its signs and symptoms
  8. 13. the first person to be diagnosed as a confirmed case often responsible for the spread of the communicable disease
Down
  1. 2. refers to the right of Indigenous peoples to govern the collection, ownership, and use of data related to their communities, lands, and cultures, ensuring that they have control over information that affects their lives.
  2. 3. This involves lab test results.
  3. 6. This meets some criteria but not all.
  4. 8. a histogram (bar chart) that shows the distribution of cases over time. The time intervals are displayed on the x axis (the horizontal axis), and case counts are displayed on the y axis (the vertical axis). The result is a visual representation of illness onset in cases associated with an outbreak.
  5. 11. This describes signs and symptoms.