Public health surveillance in child-care settings.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Stroup, Donna F. ; Thacker, Stephen B.
• Description:
  To investigate the potential contribution of public health surveillance systems to the health of children and workers in out-of-home child-care settings, we review existing public health surveillance practice in the United States. We identify issues that are of particular concern for surveillance in child-care settings. We propose a framework for developing public health surveillance systems that uses sentinel child-care sites, notifiable disease surveillance, modification of existing surveillance systems, and population surveys. Successful surveillance in these settings depends on the active participation of child-care providers, public health practitioners, and clinicians in (a) the selection of high priority diseases and injuries for surveillance; (b) the development of practical case definitions; (c) the augmentation of current surveillance systems to include disease and injury related to child care; and (d) the implementation, assessment, dissemination, and evaluation of new approaches for surveillance in child-care settings.
• Subjects:
  Child Child Care Humans Preventive Health Services Research Article Sentinel Surveillance
• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 110(2):119-124
• Pubmed ID:
  7630987
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  110
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d79e5bfa066fa2ebc1543b80e0eab1723f6a77bb4dcbb3054927495189e657e6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/64169/cdc_64169_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.21 MB ]