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health surveillance
Medical monitoring The periodic screening of a defined population for a specific disease or for biological markers of disease for which the population is, or may be, at significantly ↑ risk. See Screening.


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The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance monitors health events of potential international importance occurring worldwide to provide timely warning to French health authorities.
Now, with the passage of the 2001 California Environmental Health Surveillance System Act and the 2003 Health Tracking Act, the state's Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Health Services are reviewing exposure and tracking data to determine levels of toxic chemicals in people.
Public health surveillance of non-infectious chronic diseases: the potential to detect rapid changes in disease burden.
 
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