英文摘要 |
The school-based surveillance system aims to monitor the communicable diseases that are prevalent among school children. Elementary school students in such a crowded environment do not have strong immunity, and any communicable disease can easily spread out among them. Taiwan CDC has launched a trial school-based surveillance project in February 2001. Till now the number of elementary schools under this system has increased from 20 to 602. The long-term trends of communicable diseases common for school students have been found for early detection of pathogens and prevention of communicable diseases and epidemics. |