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  • Syndromic Surveillance System for the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Meeting 2008

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    Infection Control Law in Japan has asked doctors to cooperate in syndromic surveillance for pandemic flu and smallpox since 2007. However, doctors have to report by typing the number of patients on the web site, or by sending a… read more
    … private research company, their health condition through PC or cellular phone. Though aberration signals are reported …
  • Full Automatic Syndromic Surveillance System Using Prescription in Japan

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    I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of outpatients provides very timely information to detect… read more
    … I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even patients who … drugs prescribed are delivered through pharmacies. Almost all pharmacies record prescriptions electronically. … I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even pa- tients …
  • Estimation of Influenza Incidence by Age in the 2011/12 Seasons in Japan using SASSy

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    So as to develop more effective countermeasures against influenza, timely and precise information about influenza activity at schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools may be helpful. At the Infectious Diseases Surveillance Center of the National… read more
    … (NSASSy). These systems record the number of absentees due to infectious diseases in each class of all grades of schools every day. As a powerful … which together comprised 15,700 schools (about 35% of all schools in Japan), utilized SASSy. NSASSy is used in …
  • Operation of the evacuation site surveillance for the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011

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    In 2011, March 11th, the big earthquake attacked eastern Japan followed by huge tsunami and nuclear plant accident. Consequently a lot of people could not help living in evacuation sites. Since those evaluation sites have high density of population… read more
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  • Operation of the evacuation site surveillance for the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2011, March 11th, the big earthquake attacked eastern Japan, and forced a lot of people to live in evacuation sites. Since those evaluation sites have high density of population and sanitary condition was poor in these sites, outbreaks of… read more
    … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Detecting Web Rumours with a Multilingual Ontology-Supported Text Classification System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Timely surveillance of disease outbreak events of public health concern currently requires detailed and time consuming manual analysis by experts. Recently in addition to traditional information sources, the World Wide Web … read more
    … was 91.3% using SVM. While the size of the gold standard did not allow us to achieve performance closure we believe …
  • Real-time estimation and prediction for pandemic A/H1N1 (2009) in Japan

    Content Type: Abstract

    Unfortunately, confirmation and notification of all A/H1N1 (2009) patients in Japan was ceased on 24 July when the cumulative number of patients was about 5000. After that, as all suspected patients are not necessarily confirmed or reported, the… read more
    … Unfortunately, confirmation and notification of all A/H1N1 (2009) patients in Japan was ceased on 24 July … number of patients was about 5000. After that, as all suspected patients are not necessarily confirmed or … patients from 5000 clinics accounting for almost 10% of all clinics and hospitals in Japan. However, because the …
  • Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer

    Content Type: Abstract

    We started an experimental syndromic surveillance using 1)OTC and 2)outpatients visits, in the last year and included 3)ambulance transfer from this year so as to early detect bioterrorism attack (BTA). 
    … sales data for a common cold from 600 pharmacies in all over Japan. This includes the data from November, 2002 … to 27th June 2005, focusing on five types of symptoms, i.e. fever, respiratory symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting, and … 2,3) We estimate the baseline estimation prospectively, i.e. sample period is from January 1st 2003 to yesterday, …