Surveillance - What's In A Name?

Surveillance, particularly mass surveillance and issues involving privacy and data leaks, are never far from the news. However, disease surveillance and the benefits that result from it rarely generate the same kind of column inches.Disease surveillance involves collecting data on people’s health and, in a crucial addition to the general definition of surveillance (directly translatingto watch over), the use of this information to protect and improve the health of a population. This is don