HOW WE DO NOTIFIABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

1. Patient
   A person feels ill and goes to the doctor.
2. Healthcare Team
   Doctor diagnoses or laboratory  tests confirm a disease that is reportable by state law to the local or state public health department. Doctor or lab sends information about this disease to the local or state public health department.
3. Public Health Department
   The public health department receives disease data and uses them to:

• identify  and control disease outbreaks
• ensure that the patient is effectively treated  so disease is not spread
• provide  testing and preventive  care to those exposed to the disease
• control sources of exposure.
• The state public health department sends information about national notifiable  diseases to CDC.

4. CDC National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System Team
   NNDSS collects national notifiable disease data on behalf of CDC. The NNDSS team receives, secures, processes, and provides these data to disease-specific programs across CDC.

5. CDC Disease Program
   CDC programs use disease-specific data to:
   

• support recognition of disease outbreaks
• monitor  shifts in disease patterns
• evaluate and fund disease control activities.

CDC provides health INFORMATION:

•  Websites
• Fact sheets
• Toolkits
• Brochures and pamphlets

CDC provides GUIDANCE:

• Clinical guidance
• Research
• Publications
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
  • Vital Signs
  • Community Guide

CDC provides SUPPORT:

• Guidance
• Data collection  and reporting
• Alerts
  • Health Alert Network [HAN]
  • Epidemic Information Exchange[Epi-X] Network
• Large-scale outbreak assistance
• Small-scale outbreak assistance
• Funding