Curbing infant mortality rates using innovation

Deaths in children under the age of five will be identified and studied using a mixture of approaches. A seven-country surveillance system has been developed

In medicine and clinical care, it is common to periodically perform tests to measure a patient’s health. A physician might perform a weekly blood pressure measurement, an annual cholesterol level test, an annual exam to determine vision status and eye health, and frequent “well-baby” checks. In public health, where the “patient” is a group, community, or population of people, such a periodic assessment of health status or factors contributing to health and disease is called disease surveillance or risk factor surveillance.

As with a physician using patient tests in a clinical setting, the goal of the public health practitioner using disease