Medical Intelligence: Challenges Facing Public Health

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To Summarize The challenge to medical intelligence for disease surveillance contradict the role of the public health to get involved with the communities for detecting diseases by examination to prevent diseases with coaching and treating those who may be infected for defeating diseases and stop the spreading of the diseases. Therefore, the medical intelligence for disease surveillance is dynamic of the military system for investigating the peoples' activities is not for preventing diseases. Nevertheless, medical intelligence for disease surveillance represents a small component of the public health for collaboration to find the source or the root of diseases. Challenges Facing Public Health The role of the public health is to detect a disease …show more content…

Medical Intelligence also knows as an Epidemic Intelligence by CDC for public health is the category of intelligence in the collection, evaluation, and interpretation of foreign medical, bio-scientific and environmental information for strategic planning. Department of Defense defined medical intelligence as: That of category intelligence resulting from collection, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of foreign medical, bio-scientific, and environmental information that is of interest to strategic planning and to military medical planning and operations for the conservation of the fighting strength of friendly forces and the formation of assessments of foreign medical capabilities in both military and civilian sectors . (Staff, 2001) The civilian sector aimed at surveying biochemical infectious disease is the CDC preparedness of the public health for readiness to be involved with preventing and treating biochemical infectious disease at an epidemic …show more content…

For example, a medical intelligence of a war zone for a biochemical attack is not enough if there is no military intelligence to transport the people out of the infected area or unsafe environment to initiate for public health intervention, to treat and prevent a disease. In addition, medical intelligence is value driven for health and safety that support care delivery for the best

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