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Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Public Health Training Network Satellite Broadcast and Webcast
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Originally aired December 8, 2005
12:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Continuing education credit has expired for this program.
A self-study version of this program will become available in mid to
late February 2006. Check back then, using Course Number DV0015 (for the DVD version)
or WD0077 (for the web-on-demand version.)
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This course is designed to provide information on case
investigation, outbreak control, and disease reporting for
vaccine-preventable diseases. The course will stress the most
epidemiologically important data to collect and will discuss
methods of enhancing surveillance and completing case investigations.
This broadcast will feature a live question-and-answer session in which
participants nationwide can interact with the course instructors via toll-free
telephone lines, fax, and e-mail.
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Goal
To improve immunization practices in the United States.
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Objectives
At the conclusion of this broadcast, participants will be able to:
- Identify 3 main levels of the national surveillance system for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs).
- Locate the case definitions for nationally notifiable diseases.
- List the critical information to collect for each reported case of the disease.
- Describe the concept of surveillance indicators.
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Faculty
William Atkinson, MD, MPH; John Moran, MD MPH; Jane Seward, MBBS, MPH; and
Sandra Roush, MPH, National Immunization Program, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and other CDC guest experts.
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Target Audience
The target audience for this broadcast is exclusively those public
health professionals with responsibility for surveillance and case
investigation of vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Self-Study Programs
This program will be edited and made available for self-study
in DVD and web-on-demand formats 4 to 6 weeks after the broadcasts.
The program will not be available as a videotape. To order the DVD, use
the online order form at http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications.
After December 8, click here to view the web-on-demand.
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Webcast Information
The broadcast will have a live webcast, which will
also be available through the Internet for 1 month following the broadcast.
Click here to view webcast.
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Course Materials
The course text is the Manual for the Surveillance of
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases 3rd Edition, 2002.
This manual is available online only at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/surv-manual/default.htm.
It is recommended but not required.
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Sponsors
This program is produced by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services.
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This page last reviewed: October 26, 2005
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