National Infectious Diseases Surveillance data of South Korea

Abstract

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) operate infectious disease surveillance systems to monitor national disease incidence. Since 1954, Korea has collected data on various infectious diseases in accordance with the Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act. All physicians (including those working in Oriental medicine) who diagnose a patient with an infectious disease or conduct a postmortem examination of an infectious disease case are obliged to report the disease to the system. These reported data are incorporated into the database of the National Infectious Disease Surveillance System, which has been providing web-based real-time surveillance data on infectious diseases since 2001. In addition, the KCDC analyzes reported data and publishes the Infectious Disease Surveillance Yearbook annually.

Keywords: Infectious disease; Mandatory surveillance system; National notifiable diseases; Sentinel surveillance system; Surveillance data.

Figure 1.

Procedure of model development to calculate influenza incidence. KCDC, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; a is constant, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, and C3 are coefficients from this regression model. From Roh YK. Modeling the national pandemic influenza cases and inpatients of pneumonia in Korea. Osong: Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2011 [4].