A PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR THE WESTERN CAYO DISTRICT, BELIZE (DISEASE)

A demonstration project entailing disease surveillance was conducted in the western Cayo District, Belize, from November 1981 to March 1982. The purpose was to test and demonstrate the feasibility of community-based surveillance. Interviews were conducted in three hundred twenty households at monthly intervals over a five-month period. Information regarding disease prevalence and medical care utilization relevant to public health practice was analyzed by staff attached to the health center in Benque Viejo. Data collected at the health center were used to validate reported findings.^ Differences between reported and actual study findings regarding clinic visits were small, though in many instances statistically significant. The proportion of underreported clinic visits was greater than the proportion overreported. Overall, reporting accuracy improved with time, particularly from the first to second month. Clinic utilization experience reported for men was as accurate as that reported for females.^ There was agreement between interview and clinic disease findings. In fact, the proportion of conditions defined in the interview and matched to clinic findings was high (malaria, diarrhea, dysentery, skin sores and ulcerations, and problems of nutrition) except for upper respiratory disorders. Finally, some conditions were more likely to be taken to the health center than others, e.g., children with diarrhea or skin sores and ulcerations were less likely to be taken to the health center than if they had malaria. ^

Constrained input-output simulations of energy restrictions in the food and fiber system /

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Nutrition education resource guide for American Indians and Alaska natives : a selected annotated bibliography for the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations.

Mode of access: Internet.

Fraud in food stamp program [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, September 22, 1981.

"Serial no. 97-DD."

Food stamp program [microform] : hearings before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, March 24 and 25, 1982.

"Serial no. 97-JJJ."

Review of commodity supplemental food program [microform] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, April 28, 1982.

"Serial no. 97-MMM."