Current situation and development of epidemic surveillance in PLA / 军事医学

ABSTRACT

Epidemic surveillance is critical to infectious disease prevention and control .This article describes the evolution and current situation of epidemic surveillance in PLA , systematically analyzes major problems with epidemic surveillance , including incomplete surveillance , simplistic surveillance methods , outdated surveillance technology , inefficient disease diagnosis , poor epidemic prediction , and administrative interference in epidemic reporting .Ways to enhance epidemic surveillance are described here , such as carrying out comprehensive surveillance , and expanding the contents of surveillance , strengthening active surveillance , optimizing surveillance methods , speeding up informatization construction , innovating surveillance technology ,improving disease diagnosis technology , enhancing the ability of epidemic recognition,carrying out the prediction research ,improving the ability of early warning ,perfecting the system construction , and strengthening the awareness of infectious disease reporting .