Pre-Epidemic Diagnosis in the System Risk-Oriented Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases

This article is devoted to both theoretical and practical aspects of modern epidemiology of infectious diseases associated with the improvement of pre-epidemic diagnostics and the need for its implementation in the system of risk-based surveillance. The authors summarized and systematized the current data on the factors of epidemiological risk as well as suggested methodological approaches to identify and assess the prerequisites and precursors of complication of the epidemiological situation. In addition, they took into consideration the existing problems of pre-epidemic diagnosis and ways to solve them.