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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… for humans and farm animals respectively.The lack of awareness about brucellosis in at-risk populations, … for humans and farm animals, respectively (1). The lack of awareness about brucellosis in at-risk populations, … #8P. *Adkhamjon Mamatkulov E-mail: amamatku@bechtel.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … -
Multi-dimensional Problems in Health Settings: A Review of Approaches to Decision Making
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There appears to be a growing number of prioritization exercises, for example of diseases, in health related settings (1). The decision process around these exercises involves comparing competing alternatives, i.e. diseases, and irreducible… read more… to the multi-dimensional nature of the problem, the lack of reliable data, group dynamics associated to the … to the multi-dimensional nature of the problem, the lack of reliable data, group dynamics associated to the … -
Is There a Need for One Health Surveillance (OHS)?
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As interest in One Health (OH) continues to grow, alternative surveillance infrastructure may be needed to support it. Since most population health surveillance is domain specific; as opposed to OH which crosses multiple domains, changes to… read more… making, the motivation for change should relate to a lack of surveillance information needed to make OH … making, the motivation for change should relate to a lack of surveillance information needed to make OH … -
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… the representativeness of our surveillance efforts); iii) back-calculation methods integrating all surveillance … Similarly, frequency estimates from capture-recapture and back-calculation methods informed the parameters of …