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Describe the four types of community surveillance systems. Choose the one system more often used by a community health nurse. Support the choice.

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This solution provides a discussion of four types of community health surveillance and a type that might be most helpful to nurses in public health.

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Surveillance systems are in place for the protection of the community and surrounding
areas. There are a number of methods used to protect communities. First is disease reporting
which is often done in emergency rooms, hospitals and clinics. There are certain diseases and/or
symptoms that the Centers for Disease Control mandate being reported because they may be
preludes to more serious outbreaks such as influenzas. Another reporting systems is the zoonotic
disease ...

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