National Communicable Disease Surveillance Systems

After the Taiwan CDC was reorganized in July 1999, the National Communicable Disease Surveillance Systems has taken responsibility for surveillance of infectious diseases in Taiwan. They began with surveillance of notifiable diseases and sentinel surveillance to detect epidemics. Later on, several systems were built to collect timely, complete and precise information on infectious diseases. The vision is to monitor the nation's health status and to detect outbreaks rapidly by integrating various infectious disease surveillance networks, and its missions are to: (1) Construct diversified disease surveillance systems; (2) Collect and monitor data for disease trend analysis, prediction and alert; (3) Provide analysis and assessment of global and indigenous infectious diseases regularly.