Tests to Evaluate Public Health Disease Reporting Systems in Local Public Health Agencies

Annotation This operations manual aims to fill this gap by providing public health agencies with a set of standardized proficiency tests to aid in the development of regular and consistent strategies for testing public health disease reporting systems. The tests are intended to evaluate the ability to receive and respond to case reports 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We refined these tests by beta-testing them at 20 metropolitan area local public health agencies across the country over the course of 10 months. The contents of this manual will be of interest to public health professionals at the state and local level that are responsible for ensuring that their public health disease reporting systems are functioning appropriately.