"Fighting terrorism is actually fought better by understanding that targeted information is a far better thing, rather than this mass surveillance approach," argued Moraes.
Perhaps most importantly, any surveillance approach will need to be maintained so that trend data can be used to assess the effectiveness of prevention efforts.
"This paper is telling us we need to have a public surveillance approach to psychological maltreatment with agreed-upon definitions," Glick said.
It is unknown, however, whether this surveillance approach predicts patients' outcomes.
A new surveillance approach was needed to understand the clinical outcomes and behaviors of people in care for HIV infection because of 3 main factors.
Advancing this model for cohort and translational science and for use as a complementary surveillance approach will require understanding of inherent selection and publication (sharing) biases in the data and a technology model that supports autonomy, anonymity and privacy.
In response, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) implemented a multifaceted surveillance approach to understand the severity of illness, and the scope, distribution, and impact of nH1N1 in NYC [3], [5].
The need for a new surveillance approach to understand the clinical outcomes and behaviors of people in care for HIV evolved from the new challenges for monitoring clinical outcomes in the HAART era, the impact of the epidemic on an increasing number of areas in the US, and the need for representative data to describe the epidemic and related resource utilization and needs.
VetPAD has a syndromic surveillance approach.
The surveillance approach and design chosen may vary over time.
Thus, this active surveillance approach is costly and personnel-intensive.
