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Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection
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The late health events such as the heat wave of 2003 showed the need to make public health surveillance evolve in France. Thus, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has developed syndromic surveillance systems based on several… read more… Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection … -
Integrated approach of non-specific surveillance in Reunion Island
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In Reunion Island, the non-specific surveillance was developed since 2006 and was based on the activity of only one hospital emergency department and on mortality. To respond to the threat of influenza A(H1N1) pandemic emergence, this surveillance… read more… departments of the four hospitals; � number of call phone for ILI to the emergency medical service regulation center; � number of consultations and home visits by general practi- tioners. These indicators and … show various levels of gravity of the influenza pandemic (phone calls, practitioner consultations and emer- gency …