Public health surveillance

大多數的情況下，是由政府機構對個人或群體的觀察（但也有例外的情況，例如疾病監測（英语：Disease surveillance）及疫情监测（英语：Public health surveillance）是指對疾病在社群中的傳染等狀況進行監視，而非直接針對個人進行觀察或監控）。

針對傳染病作監測是中華人民共和國（中國）公共衛生監測（英语：public health surveillance）功能中主要的任務。中國疾病監測（英语：disease surveillance）（英語：Disease surveillance in China）系統當前有三個重要功能：

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