National Communicable Disease Surveillance Systems(Report 2011)

Ever since Taiwan CDC was reorganized in July 1999, responsibility for infectious disease surveillance was handed to the National Communicable Disease Surveillance Systems. The systems began with surveillance of notifiable diseases plus sentinel surveillance to detect epidemics, and later on several systems were built to collect timely, complete and precise information on infectious diseases. Taiwan CDC's vision of these systems is to monitor the nation's health status and detect outbreaks rapidly by integrating various infectious disease surveillance networks. The work Taiwan CDC carried out included: (1) Constructing diversified disease surveillance systems; (2) Collecting and monitoring data for disease trend analysis, predictions and alerts; and (3) Providing regular analysis and assessments of global and indigenous infectious diseases.