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The Challenges of European Public Health Surveillance Systems - An Overview of the HIV-AIDS Surveillance

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Surveillance has been defined as the continual scrutiny of all aspects in emerging and the spread of a disease that is pertinent to effective control, involving a systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data. Given their fragmentation several problems inherent to data must be recognized. This paper aims to provide an overview of European Public Health Surveillance Systems emphasizing their structure and main challenges. The HIV-AIDS surveillance is overview as a particular case.

The most common issues are unrepresentativeness, changes in the implementation through time, inconsistent use of case definitions, miss diagnoses, miss or fail to report a case, reporting delay, and errors during completion of the form or data entry. The HIV - AIDS surveillance is one of the most complex mainly due to the special epidemiology of the disease surrounding the transmission modes and the lack of treatment and all the socio-ecological framework involved.

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Acknowledgements

Luís Paulo Reis and Alexandra Oliveira were partially founded by the European Regional Development Fund through the programme COMPETE by FCT (Portugal) in the scope of the project PEst-UID/CEC/ 00027/2015 and QVida+: Estimação Contínua de Qualidade de Vida para Auxílio Eficaz à Decisão Clínica, NORTE010247FEDER003446, supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement. Rita Gaio was partially supported by CMUP (UID/MAT/00144/2019), which is funded by FCT with national (MCTES) and European structural funds through the programs FEDER, under the partnership agreement PT2020.

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  1. School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Alexandra Oliveira

  2. LIACC-Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory, Porto, Portugal

    Alexandra Oliveira & Luís Paulo Reis

  3. DEI-FEUP-Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DM-FCUP-Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Rita Gaio

  5. CMUP-Center of Mathematics of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Rita Gaio

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  2. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Faculdade de Engenharia/LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

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Oliveira, A., Reis, L.P., Gaio, R. (2019). The Challenges of European Public Health Surveillance Systems - An Overview of the HIV-AIDS Surveillance. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'19 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 932. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_50

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