91
Fig. 4.20 Unsafe
transportation
3. Identify public health emergencies
4. Document impact of an intrusion or progress towards specified public health
goals
5. Understand/monitor the epidemiology of a condition to set priorities
An effective surveillance system has the following events:
• Case detection
• Reporting
• Investigation and confirmation
• Analysis and interpretation
• Control/response
• Feedback
Difficulties in health surveillance in a developing world including but not
restricted to:
• Fake doctors
• Home remedies
• Non-reporting and erroneous reporting
Healthcare fraud can be doctor/patient/drug fraud for profit (Stan Mack 2018).
Unethical doctors can take benefit of the complexity of health diagnoses to increase
their revenues. Patient fraud typically involves fraud committed by drug-seeking
patients or abuse of insurance ID cards. Workers in healthcare sometimes might
obtain subsidized prescription drugs and then resell them on the black market.
4.4 Disease Surveillance
Fig. 4.20 Unsafe
transportation
3. Identify public health emergencies
4. Document impact of an intrusion or progress towards specified public health
goals
5. Understand/monitor the epidemiology of a condition to set priorities
An effective surveillance system has the following events:
• Case detection
• Reporting
• Investigation and confirmation
• Analysis and interpretation
• Control/response
• Feedback
Difficulties in health surveillance in a developing world including but not
restricted to:
• Fake doctors
• Home remedies
• Non-reporting and erroneous reporting
Healthcare fraud can be doctor/patient/drug fraud for profit (Stan Mack 2018).
Unethical doctors can take benefit of the complexity of health diagnoses to increase
their revenues. Patient fraud typically involves fraud committed by drug-seeking
patients or abuse of insurance ID cards. Workers in healthcare sometimes might
obtain subsidized prescription drugs and then resell them on the black market.
4.4 Disease Surveillance