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Manual on livestock disease surveillance and information systems
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Introduction -- Defining importance of diseases -- FAO/EMPRES: a new emphasis -- Early detection -- The need for surveillance -- What is surveillance? -- Surveillance on the ground -- Putting a surveillance system in place -- Surveillance for what? -- Surveillance when and how? -- Surveillance in resource-poor countries -- Informations systems -- Setting the goals; determining needs and outputs -- Computerisation -- Questionnaire design -- Databases -- Data quality control -- Feedback -- The role of GIS -- Motivating and training field staff -- Awareness creation among decision-makers -- Using surveillance as a management tool -- FAO involvement in surveillance and information systems development -- Examples of questionnaires -- Appendix: I Random sample design -- Appendix: II A model framework for strengthening disease surveillance -- Further reading.
Includes bibliographical references (page 71).
Information storage and retrieval systems