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cord-001038-91uj6sph	Mirza, Nabila	Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise A Commentary from the International Society for Disease Surveillance	2013-07-01		.txt	text/plain	2821	167	41	This paper presents the recommendations of the Sustainable Surveillance Workgroup convened by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) to identify strategies for building, strengthening, and maintaining surveillance systems that are equipped to provide data continuity and to handle both established and new data sources and public health surveillance practices. Public health surveillance is defined as, "the systematic and ongoing collection, management, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of information for the purpose of informing the actions of public health decision makers." 3 In addition to providing information about the health status of our communities, surveillance is a foundation of emergency preparedness, food safety, infectious disease outbreak prevention and control, chronic disease assessments, and other key areas that protect the health, economy, and security of the public.	./cache/cord-001038-91uj6sph.txt	./txt/cord-001038-91uj6sph.txt