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Digital Sources of Food Purchasing Data for the Surveillance of Dietary Patterns
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In Canada, the economic impact of unhealthy eating is estimated at $6.3 billion annually and in the US the estimated cost is $87 billion. Despite the critical need to identify effective diet-related interventions through empirical evaluation, public… read more… billion. Despite the critical need to identify effective diet-related interventions through empirical evaluation, … the utility of automatically captured store-level (i.e. point-of-sale) food purchasing data for the … billion. Despite the critical need to identify effective diet-related interventions through empirical evaluation, … -
Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal
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Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more… for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montréal Luc de Montigny*, Aman Verma, Katia Charland and David … with the lowest uptake, the Health Department’s campaign did not appear to increase vaccination, reflecting … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … -
Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison
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Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more… to the household and community spread of influenza, due in This is an Open Access article distributed under the … children also reduces population-wide morbidity due to influenza.5 Acknowledgements This paper was presented … in children by polymerase chain reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, … -
The influence of address errors on detecting outbreaks of campylobacteriosis
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Mandatory notification to public health of priority communicable diseases (CDs) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and control programs. Increasingly, the addresses of CD cases are used for spatial monitoring and cluster detection… read more… surveillance data. We identified address errors in 25% of all reported cases of communicable diseases from 1995 to … University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and 3Direction de Santé Publique, Agence de la Santé et des services … surveillance data. We identified address errors in 25% of all reported cases of communicable diseases from 1995 to … -
Does Climate Predict the Timing of Peak Influenza Activity in the United States?
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Though spatio-temporal patterns of influenza spread have often suggested that environmental factors, such as temperature, solar radiation and humidity play a key role, few studies have directly assessed their effect on the timing… read more… with epidemic timing (95% CI: (-0.027, -0.004)). We did not find a significant relationship between either dew …