discuss how a natioanal surveillance plan should set a list of disease as priority for surveillance . do not discuss specific disease but discuss the attribute that make the disease worth monitoring through surveillance. (explain in 500 word )
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The federal government has collected information on communicable diseases since 1924, under the legislative authority of the Statistics Canada Act and the Health Canada Act (1,2). Aggregate data on communicable diseases was initially collected and collated by The Dominion Bureau of Statistics (later changed to Statistics Canada), but this responsibility, with the exception of tuberculosis, was transferred to the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) in 1988. Responsibility for tuberculosis was subsequently transferred to the LCDC in 1995. Currently, information on communicable diseases under national surveillance is managed by the Division of Disease Surveillance within the Bureau of Infectious Diseases, LCDC. The Division of Disease Surveillance is frequently asked why all infectious diseases of general interest are not nationally notifiable. First, disease surveillance requires money, time and energy for health care providers, local health units, provinces, territories or Health Canada to report and collect data on every communicable disease. Second, it requires considerable time and effort to make a disease nationally notifiable because every province and territory needs to go through the legislative or regulatory process of making the disease reportable within their jurisdictions. The process is managed by setting priorities to decide where to put the greatest effort. Criteria for priority setting should be explicit and measurable, and should minimize the influence of such factors as personal interest and political agendas. To the utmost degree possible, the criteria should be based on scientific evidence. Above all, "the challenge is to make the priority-setting process transparent and open to criticism and revision
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