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Evaluating the performance of two alternative geographic surveillance schemes
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Influenza-like illness (ILI) data is collected by an Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance Network at the state (Iowa, USA) level. Historically, the Iowa Department of Public Health has maintained 19 different influenza sentinel… read more… of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA E-mail: gcfairch@gmail.com Objective This paper describes an experiment to evaluate … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 2020 sites which maximize total … Health Threats Journal G Fairchild et al. 2011, 4:s22 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 2121 … -
Changes in the Spatial Distribution of Syphilis
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Public health officials and epidemiologists have been attempting to eradicate syphilis for decades, but national incidence rates are again on the rise. It has been suggested that the syphilis epidemic in the US is a "rare example of unforced,… read more… *Sean Tolentino E-mail: seanluciotolentino@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. Syphilis … -
Changes in Alcohol-Related Travel Behavior due to an Under 21 Ordinance
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Alcohol abuse is one of the major leading causes of preventable mortality in the United States. Binge drinking or excessive alcohol consumption, categorized as a pattern of drinking that brings a person's blood alcohol concentration to 0.08, has… read more… to football Saturdays, where some 50,000 people come to Iowa City to tailgate and attend the Big10 football … 3. City of Iowa City. http://www.icgov.org/site/CMSv2/File/city- Council/under21FAQ.pdf. … http://www.icgov.org/site/CMSv2/File/cityCouncil/under21FAQ.pdf … -
Inferring Travel from Social Media
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The spread of infectious diseases is facilitated by human travel. Infectious diseases are often introduced into a population by travelers and then spread among susceptible individuals. Likewise uninfected susceptible travelers can move into… read more… We display intrastate travel by aggregating each user’s con- secutive records within each state and plotting only …