Approaches to Estimating the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Burden in the U.S.: Uses and Limitations of the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (External Review Draft)
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The Approaches to Estimating the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Burden in the United States: Uses and Limitations of the Waterborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (External Review Draft) document presents approaches for estimating the epidemiologic and economic burden of disease associated with 665 WBDOs reported in the U.S. between 1971 and 2000. The term disease burden broadly refers to the magnitude of the impact incurred by society as a consequence of disease in the community (e.g. decrements in a population's health or the associated economic effects) and there are various metrics that can be employed by analysts to quantify burden. The external review draft report also includes recommendations for the collection and reporting of additional outbreak information that would improve the usefulness of the WBDO database for future disease burden estimates.
|Sep 2006||EPA released the External Review Draft Document for a 30-day Public Comment Period.|
|Oct 2006||EPA held an External Peer Review Meeting on the draft document in late October. Following the external peer review and public comment period, EPA will incorporate these comments into the final report.|
- Oct 22, 2004 surveillance summary for 2001/2002 (PDF, 48pp)
- Nov 22, 2002 surveillance summary for 1999/2000 (PDF, 52pp)
- May 26, 2000 surveillance summary for 1997/1998 (PDF, 44pp)
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