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A Comprehensive Approach to the Assessment of Surveillance Strategies: the Case of Scrapie in Great Britain
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Multiple surveillance activities have been conducted in Great Britain (GB) with the objective of estimating the occurrence of scrapie, a fatal neurological infectious disease of small ruminants: statutory reporting of clinical cases, annual surveys… read more -
Bayesian Hierarchical Models for the Evaluation and Design of Surveillance Systems: an Application to Scrapie Surveillance in Great Britain
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There is a need for regular evaluation of surveillance strategies. The emergence of new diagnostic tests and new sources of data, changes in the spatio-temporal distribution of diseases and other factors must be periodically… read more -
Evaluating the Active Surveillance of Scrapie in the EU
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The abattoir and the fallen stock surveys constitute the active surveillance component aimed at improving the detection of scrapie across the EU. Previous studies have suggested the occurrence of significant differences in the… read more -
Extending Comparisons Beyond Time and Space: Looking for Similarities Between Diseases
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Early detection of new diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy is the subject of great interest (Gibbens et al., 2008). Understanding whether a disease is infectious or sporadic becomes essential for the application of control measures.… read more -
Prioritization: a difficult word, and technique, to master. A review of prioritization approaches to multi-dimensional problems in health settings
Content Type: Webinar
In a context of finite resources, multiple needs and growing demands of organizational accountability, there has been an increase in the number of multi-dimensional prioritization exercises (of diseases, interventions, etc) in the health arena. Not… read more -
Education as a mechanism to reduce spread of brucellosis among at-risk populations in Uzbekistan
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One goal of the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the enhancement of surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union. One of the… read more