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Surveillance and Survey Techniques

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Sourcebook of Occupational Rehabilitation

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According to the American Heritage Dictionary (1991), the word surveillance comes from the Latin verb viglare (to be watchful), and the French verb surveiller (to watch over). As a medical term, surveillance is defined as watching or monitoring (Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1988). The notion of surveillance as it relates to the goals of occupational and public health is probably best illustrated by analogy to the concept of immunological surveillance:

A hypothesized monitoring function by which the immune system protects against cancer. According to the theory, tumor cells constantly arise throughout life by malignant transformation of normal cells, but almost all are recognized and destroyed by the immune system. Only a few somehow escape or circumvent immune surveillance to grow and become clinically detectable cancers. (Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1988)

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  1. Wisconsin Division of Health and Departments of Industrial Engineering and Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703, USA

    Lawrence P. Hanrahan

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  1. Occupational Therapy Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201, USA

    Phyllis M. King

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Hanrahan, L.P. (1998). Surveillance and Survey Techniques. In: King, P.M. (eds) Sourcebook of Occupational Rehabilitation. Springer Series in Rehabilitation and Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1907-6_10

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