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Integrated Disease Surveillance to Reduce Data Fragmentation - An Application to Malaria Control
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There is growing recognition that an inability to access timely health indicators can hamper both the design and the effective implementation of infectious diseases control interventions. In malaria control, the global use of standard interventions… read more -
Multimorbidity Network Surveillance: Chronic Disease Clusters and Social Disparities
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Chronic diseases impose heavy burdens onhealth systems, economies, andsocieties (1). Half of all Americans live with at least one of the chronic conditions and more than 75% of health care cost is associated with people with chronic diseases (2).… read more -
A Semantic Platform for Surveillance of Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been linked to a variety of detrimental health and social outcomes. In the last 20 years, the association between ACEs with several adult health risk behaviors, conditions, and diseases including suicides,… read more -
A Semantic Framework to Improve Interoperability of Malaria Surveillance Systems
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In 2015, there were 212 million new cases of malaria, and about 429,000 malaria death, worldwide. African countries accounted for almost 90% of global cases of malaria and 92% of malaria deaths. Currently, malaria data are scattered across different… read more -
Identifying Sociomarkers of Pediatric Asthma Patients at Risk of Hospital Revisiting
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A socio-marker is a measurable indicator of social conditions where a patient is embedded in and exposed to, being analogous with a biomarker indicating the severity or presence of some disease state. Social factors are one of the most clinical… read more