The Consistency of Shingles and Its Significance for Health Monitoring

• Published in: European journal of epidemiology Vol. 19; no. 12; pp. 1113 - 1118
• Main Authors: Fleming, Douglas M., Bartelds, Aad, Chapman, Rachel S., Cross, Kenneth W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.12.2004; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age; Age groups; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Censuses; Chickenpox; Children; Epidemiology; Estimate reliability; Estimation; Female; Gender; Health; Herpes zoster; Herpes Zoster - epidemiology; Human viral diseases; Humans; Incidence; Infectious Diseases; Male; Medical disorders; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Netherlands - epidemiology; Networks; Older adults; Population; Population estimates; Population Surveillance; Populations; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Quality assurance; Viral diseases; Viral diseases with cutaneous or mucosal lesions and viral diseases of the eye; Netherlands; Continuity of care; Human; Skin disease; Nervous system diseases; Herpes zoster; Patient; Epidemiology; Infection; Surveillance; Viral disease; Shingles; Sentinel practices; Public health

Accurate estimation of monitored populations is essential for epidemiological study. Many countries do not have systems of patient registration and routine disease surveillance is thereby hindered. We studied the incidence of shingles over time and investigated the hypothesis that the incidence is c...