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Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition
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More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more… areas: OE and EDE. Methods Biosurveillance is needed at all levels of public health, the local health clinic, as … algorithms. Each also produces case-level data lists, pie and bar charts of any available variable, and alert or … geographical shape files are available. In addition, all of the user interface components in OE are internationa- … -
Incorporating Water Security into Syndromic Surveillance
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Although rare in the US, the CDC reports 13-14 drinking-water-related disease outbreaks per year, affecting an average of about 1000 people. The US EPA has determined that the distribution system is the most vulnerable component… read more… 5 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … system sectors that have similar water characteristics de- pending on the hydrostatic pressure and distance from … Health and WQ BBNs to assess the degree of belief that de- graded WQ is or is not associated with illnesses. The … -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more… tra- ditionally relies on diagnosis, must be altered to de- velop an interpretation of less specific health indica- … tools must take into ac- count the normal deviations of all of the variables that comprise the background for the … and evidence-based decisions. Combining the trends of all available indicators can provide and earlier …