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Appendix B: Dialogue of U.S. and Iranian Experts on Food-borne Diseases (2006)
Appendix B: Dialogue of U.S. and Iranian Experts on Food-borne Diseases (2006)
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Most diseases will be reported to the local health department from where they are reported to the national surveillance institute. We believe that the protection of patient privacy (recognition of a person's right not to share information about himself or herself )
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The epidemiological pattern in Iran is undergoing a transition from infectious diseases to chronic diseases. Iran faces an increasing burden of chronic diseases mainly due to changing lifestyle behaviors.
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Among all surveillance approaches to early detection, whether through traditional disease reporting, specialized analytic routines for aberration detection, or surveillance using early indicators of disease outbreaks (such as syndromic surveillance) , we prefer the last one (due to its ability for detecting outbreaks of diseases earlier and more completely than might otherwise be possible with traditional public health methods)
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