Health care providers highly recommend that you regularly attend medical checks, whereby your doctor will carefully examine you to check for any ailments or abnormal growth in your body (MDI, 2017).
Outbreak is a term used in epidemiology to describe an occurrence of disease greater than would otherwise be expected at a particular person, time and place (MDI, 2017).
A screening test is a procedure that is performed to detect the presence of a specific disease. The individual or group of individuals (as in mass screenings) does not present any symptoms of the disease (MDI, 2017).
This evolution of “surveillance” from personal to public health surveillance developed and highlighted what currently are considered its main principles – data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, and dissemination of that data in a timely manner at the lowest possible cost for public health action (MDI, 2017).
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