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National Health Insurance: a new application for non-specific surveillance in Reunion Island
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In Reunion Island, the non-specific surveillance was mainly developed during A(H1N1) influenza pandemic in 2009. In March 2010, a new surveillance system was implemented from National Health Insurance data. This monitoring was based on the weekly… read more… was based on the weekly consultation number and home visits by general practitioners. Objective To assess the … was based on the weekly consultation number and home visits by general practitioners. Methods The data based on … A(H1N1) v. Euro Surveill. 2009;14:19239. *Pascal Vilain E-mail: Pascal.VILAIN@ars.sante.fr (page number not for … -
Syndromic Surveillance and Heat Wave: Is it Working?
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Most of the time, health consequences of heat waves are serious. Heat wave response plans were developed for reducing health effects but even if they are very efficient it is not possible to eliminate all health consequences.… read more… through the Internet. Items collected for each patient visit included the diagnosis code according to ICD10, … Based on the same age groups, the daily means of patient visits and hospitalized patients were calcu- lated. The … “on alert period”. During the “on alert period”, 4,557 visits per day were recorded vs. 4,511 during the “off alert … -
Performances of a Syndromic Surveillance System during a Heat Wave
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The 2003 heat wave in France (15,000 extra deaths in 10 days) led the French institute for public health surveillance to modify its public health surveillance system. One of the major objectives of this program was a real time… read more… (4). RESULTS Fifteen hospitals were selected and 118,119 visits were recorded during the 3 months. Sensitivity and …