Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP)
State and District Surveillance Officer
Two Week Course Content - 2008

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Introduction to Surveillance

Learning Objective(s)

• Identify the key components of a surveillance system

Presentation

• Introduction to Surveillance

Exercises

• None

Readings

• Principles of epidemiology, pp. pages 5-1 to 5-4

Resources

• Principles of surveillance textbook by Teutsch and Churchill

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