- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- 1 Defining Field Epidemiology
- 2 Initiating Operations
- 3 Conducting a Field Investigation
- 4 Collecting Data
- 5 Using Technologies for Data Collection and Management
- 6 Describing Epidemiologic Data
- 7 Designing and Conducting Analytic Studies in the Field
- 8 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- 9 Optimizing Epidemiology–Laboratory Collaborations
- 10 Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data
- 11 Developing Interventions
- 12 Communicating During an Outbreak or Public Health Investigation
- 13 Legal Considerations
- 14 Coordination of Multiple States and Federal Agencies
- 15 Multinational Outbreak Investigations
- 16 Emergency Operations Centers and Incident Management Structure
- 17 Geographic Information System Data
- 18 Healthcare Settings
- 19 Community Congregate Settings
- 20 Exposures and Conditions of Acute Environmental Origin
- 21 Occupational Disease and Injury
- 22 Natural and Human-Made Disasters
- 23 Acute Enteric Disease Outbreaks
- 24 Suspected Intentional Use of Biologic and Toxic Agents
- 25 Suicide, Violence, and Other Forms of Injury
- Index
Developing Interventions
Developing Interventions
- Chapter:
- (p.229) 11 Developing Interventions
- Source:
- The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual
- Author(s):
James L. Hadler
Jay K. Varma
Duc J. Vugia
Richard A. Goodman
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Interventions are control and prevention measures that public health officials select and implement at one or more points in time after initiating a field investigation in response to an acute public health problem. Regardless of the nature of the problem, an immediate need exists to understand what is happening and to recommend and implement control and prevention measures that are scientifically justified and acceptable to the community. Public health officials must recommend these actions often without incontrovertible epidemiologic proof of a causal association between the putative source or cause of the problem and occurrence of exposure and disease or injury. Under such circumstances, the key question for the field epidemiologist and decision-makers is: “How much epidemiologic certainty is required before initiating action?” This chapter discusses the decision-making process regarding interventions during the course of epidemiologic field investigations and concludes with a summary of actions relating to interventions that should be considered at each progressive stage of the field investigation.
Keywords: intervention, control, prevention, outbreak, investigation, epidemiology
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- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- 1 Defining Field Epidemiology
- 2 Initiating Operations
- 3 Conducting a Field Investigation
- 4 Collecting Data
- 5 Using Technologies for Data Collection and Management
- 6 Describing Epidemiologic Data
- 7 Designing and Conducting Analytic Studies in the Field
- 8 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- 9 Optimizing Epidemiology–Laboratory Collaborations
- 10 Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data
- 11 Developing Interventions
- 12 Communicating During an Outbreak or Public Health Investigation
- 13 Legal Considerations
- 14 Coordination of Multiple States and Federal Agencies
- 15 Multinational Outbreak Investigations
- 16 Emergency Operations Centers and Incident Management Structure
- 17 Geographic Information System Data
- 18 Healthcare Settings
- 19 Community Congregate Settings
- 20 Exposures and Conditions of Acute Environmental Origin
- 21 Occupational Disease and Injury
- 22 Natural and Human-Made Disasters
- 23 Acute Enteric Disease Outbreaks
- 24 Suspected Intentional Use of Biologic and Toxic Agents
- 25 Suicide, Violence, and Other Forms of Injury
- Index
