Surveilans penyakit

Surveilans penyakit adalah praktik epidemiologi yang memantau penyebaran penyakit. Peran utama pengawasan penyakit adalah untuk memprediksi, mengamati dan meminimalisir hal berbahaya yang disebabkan oleh situasi-situasi wabah, epidemi dan pandemi, serta meningkatkan pengetahuan soal faktor yang berkontribusi terhadap keadaan semacam itu. Bagian utama dari pengawasan penyakit modern adalah praktek pelaporan kasus penyakit.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan
 CDC: Influenza Activity – United States and Worldwide, 2003–2004 Season, and Composition of the 2004–2005 Influenza Vaccine
 Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network
 WHO Alert & Response Operations
 WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Web site
 WHO Avian Influenza Web site
 Sickweather  The world's first real-time social media disease surveillance tool
 HealthMap The HealthMap real-time automated surveillance system is a program of Children's Hospital Boston with support from Google.org
 GermTrax Tracking the spread of sickness and disease with the help of social media
 ProMED-mail  The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources. ProMED-mail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases with the support and encouragement of the Federation of American Scientists and SatelLife.  

Epidemiologi