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Global Health Surveillance: Innovation and Coordination for Broad Health Impact
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Multiple agencies are involved in global disease surveillance and coordination of activities is essential to achieve broad public health impact. Multiple examples of effective and collaborative initiatives exist. The WHO/AFRO developed Integrated… read more… was launched with the support of 28 countries, WHO, OIE and FAO just as Ebola was beginning to emerge in West … was launched with the support of 28 countries, WHO, OIE and FAO just as Ebola was beginning to emerge in West … -
Infectious Disease Surveillance In Peruvian Navy Ships
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The objective of this research is to describe infectious disease surveillance on military population on board ships.… extremely susceptible to this kind of infectious agent due the special features of their environment. All personnel … of respiratory agents [1]. Ships are an example of this, due the close contact between the crew, especially during … [1] Kak, V. Infections in confined spaces. Infect Dis Clin N Am 21 (2007) 773-784. [2] Balicer, R. Influenza … -
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- …