Lesson 2 Objectives:
Upon completion of this lesson, you should be able to:
- State at least 5 uses of disease surveillance information.
- Explore some public sources of disease surveillance data.
- Compare and contrast 5 health surveys conducted in the US with regard to the target population, sampling strategy, and purpose
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of surveys
- Differentiate between sampling strategies in order to select an appropriate sampling scheme for a survey