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description: Disease Surveillance tracks and manages disease data and public health activities. Use the Disease Surveillance data model to centralize patient information, including demographics, disability status, medications, and specimens. Streamline health monitoring and enable timely, informed decision making by gaining a comprehensive view of disease-related data, such as definitions, investigations, and outbreaks.
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# Disease Surveillance

Disease Surveillance tracks and manages disease data and public health activities. Use the Disease Surveillance data model to centralize patient information, including demographics, disability status, medications, and specimens. Streamline health monitoring and enable timely, informed decision making by gaining a comprehensive view of disease-related data, such as definitions, investigations, and outbreaks.

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              <p class="p">Available in: Lightning Experience</p>

              <p class="p">Available in: <strong class="ph b">Enterprise</strong> and
                <strong class="ph b">Unlimited</strong> Editions with Health Cloud
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To use this data model, go to Setup and enable **Disease Surveillance** on the Public Health Settings page.

![Diagram of the disease surveillance data model showing object relationships](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.health_cloud_object_reference.meta/health_cloud_object_reference/dev_guides/healthcare_api/images/hc_disease_surveillance_erd.png)

For more details and a larger image, visit the [Data Model Gallery](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/data-models/guide/disease-surveillance.html "HTML (New Window)").