Surveillance of health and disease includes ongoing data collection, analysis to convert this data into statistics, interpretation of this analysis to produce information and dissemination of this information to those who can take appropriate action.
Spremljanje zdravja in bolezni vključuje nenehno zbiranje podatkov, njihovo analiziranje in spreminjanje v statistične podatke ter razlaganje analiz za oblikovanje informacij in njihovo posredovanje do tistih, ki lahko ustrezno ukrepajo.