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[Roshan Hewapathirana <roshanhewapathirana@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with the definition. My suggestion was to make the 2 concepts you
mentioned 'properties' of (any applicable) data element, instead of data
elements themselves.

If we are to create data elements for all conditions need to be under
surveillance, we need to create 2 data elements per condition (suspected
and outbreak) I think.
However, if suspected (property:under surveillance) is a property of any
data element, we don't have to create new data elements and enter data. We
can just re-use the data entered and when counts reach the level
(property:upper limit to be notified as outbreak), can be visualized and
trigger alerts.

If we do this, we can keep more than one condition dynamically under
surveillance easily.


On 20 February 2014 13:39, wanjala pepela <wanjala2p@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A disease outbreak is the occurrence of cases of disease in excess of
> what would normally be expected in a defined community, geographical area
> or season. an Outbreak is a term used in epidemiology to describe an
> occurrence of disease greater than would otherwise be expected at a
> particular time and place. if we are designing a data element, then we
> should use the term suspected disease or outbreak.
>
>