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Framework and Tools for Evaluating Health Surveillance SystemsTABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive SummaryThe Framework and Tools for Evaluating Health Surveillance Systems is designed to help managers of health surveillance systems identify and document issues relating to the rationale, implementation and effectiveness of their health surveillance systems. The Framework and tools provide standard approaches that managers can apply in their efforts to identify current practices and to enhance the ability of surveillance to provide relevant information for the review of public health objectives. The framework outlines six steps in evaluating health surveillance.
These steps outline a process for systematically reviewing the purpose, design, management and operational characteristics of a system within the context of its program. As noted by Klaucke , the strength of an evaluation depends on the evaluator's ability to assess a system's characteristics with respect to its objectives. The ease of implementation and degree of success of an evaluation is closely linked to the maturity of results-based management practices. Results-Based Management and Accountability Frameworks (RMAFs) help managers ensure that:
Background and PurposeSurveillance is to public health as accounting is to a commercial enterprise. Both track the "life-blood" of the flow of information in support of crucial decisions that impact on the lives of many citizens.
This document has been developed in response to the emerging application of results-based management practices within Health Canada, an Auditor General's report focusing on the practices of measuring and reporting of performance, and the desire for systemic change in the wake of the recent SARS crisis in Canada. Health Canada mandated its Population and Public Health Branch (PPHB) to initiate the development of an evaluation framework for enhancing the performance of surveillance systems.
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