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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
KOREAN SOC EPIDEMIOLOGY
DOI: 10.4178/epih/e2014030
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National notifiable diseases; Infectious disease; Surveillance data; Mandatory surveillance system; Sentinel surveillance system
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The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) operate infectious disease surveillance systems to monitor national disease incidence. Since 1954, Korea has collected data on various infectious diseases in accordance with the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act. All physicians (including those working in Oriental medicine) who diagnose a patient with an infectious disease or conduct a postmortem examination of an infectious disease case are obliged to report the disease to the system. These reported data are incorporated into the database of the National Infectious Disease Surveillance System, which has been providing webbased real-time surveillance data on infectious diseases since 2001. In addition, the KCDC analyzes reported data and publishes the Infectious Disease Surveillance Yearbook annually.
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