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In surveillance we collect the data just about the problem itself , and not about it’s causes.

If we are insisted in the causes of the problem we collect the data for this purpose in a separate study , however data of surveillance system may help us in conducting the study.

(note that for defining the risk factors of a problem we must collect the same data from the population without that problem – the comparison group)