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Estimating the Burden of Disease Associated With Outbreaks Reported To the U.S. Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System: Identifying Limitations and Improvements (Final Report)
EPA announces the release of the final report, Approaches to Estimating the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Burden in the United States: Uses and Limitations of the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System.
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Estimating the Burden of Disease Associated With Outbreaks Reported To the U.S. Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System: Identifying Limitations and Improvements (Final Report). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-06/069, 2007.
Impact/Purpose:
This report demonstrates how data from the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (WBDOSS) can be used to estimate disease burden and presents results using 30 years of data.
Description:
This report demonstrates how data from the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (WBDOSS) can be used to estimate disease burden and presents results using 30 years of data. This systematic analysis does not attempt to provide an estimate of the actual incidence and burden of outbreak-related waterborne illnesses in the U.S. Rather, the purpose of this report is to explore methods for estimating outbreak disease burden measures from available outbreak surveillance data and to clearly lay out the limitations of the data. Because the report makes recommendations for improvements in the WBDOSS that could result in more useful data in the future, it represents an important step toward making WBDOSS a more useful source of information for Agency policy makers.
URLs/Downloads:
Approaches to Estimating the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Burden in the United States: Uses and Limitations of the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (Final Report) (PDF, 229 pp, 12961 KB, about PDF)URL for morbidity and mortality weekly reports lists the reported U.S. biannual outbreak data.
