The negative predictive value (NPV) of a diagnostic test is the proportion of those testing negative and are truly disease free. The more sensitive a test, the less likely it is...

The process, distinct from risk assessment, of weighing policy alternatives in consultation with interested parties, considering risk assessment and other legitimate factors,...

The medical features (e.g., symptoms, medical examination findings, and laboratory results) that are used in a case definition.

Checking, by examination and the consideration of objective evidence, whether specified requirements have been fulfilled

Any substance or product, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be, or reasonably expected to be ingested by humans. ‘Food’ includes drink, chewing...

A criterion which separates acceptability from unacceptability.

Collaborating institutes in the One Health European Joint Programme

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A collection of concepts and relationships needed to model all the data and information collected in the process of surveillance, including surveillance inputs, methods, and...

Quantitative variable or qualitative factor that provides a simple and reliable means to measure achievement, to reflect the changes connected to activities, or to help assess...

The number or proportion of cases or events or attributes among a given population

The current state of the disease in the geographical area covered. E.g. free of disease, endemic, etc.

Use of prior or additional information about the probability of hazard occurrence to revise the surveillance intensity required to achieve the stated surveillance purpose.

Sampling is the process of selecting a number of cases from all the cases in a particular group or universe.

is the process of bringing a species from its endemic range into a biogeographic area to which it is completely foreign

Two or more samples each representing the sampling unit are merged into one sample for microbiological analysis.

Infrastructure necessary to create open, web-based knowledge repositories (domain-specific Knowledge Bases and the One Health Surveillance Knowledge Hub), a project website, a...

System for the timely detection and identification of an incursion or emergence of diseases or infections in a country, zone or compartment. An early detection system should be...

Any stage, including import, from and including the primary production of a food, up to and including its storage, transport, sale or supply to the final consumer and, where...