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Using ESSENCE to Track a Gastrointestinal Outbreak in a Homeless Shelter in Miami-Dade County, 2008
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Although Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) provides tools to detect a significant alert regarding an unusual public health event, combining that information with … read more… discovered that on June 16, the residents that became ill did not eat food from the cafeteria but rather from food … period of time, interviews could not be conducted with all of the ill persons. CONCLUSIONS This study verified that … demonstrates how important it is to carefully monitor all clusters and not only those automatically created by the … -
Substance Abuse Among Youth in Miami-Dade County, 2005-2007
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The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 9th to 12th graders in Miami-Dade County public schools found that 69.7% of students tried alcohol, 28.3% tried marijuana, and 6.3% tried cocaine in their lifetime. Results also showed that… read more… 2006, there were 2,323 overdose related calls to 911 for all ages; 1,480 (63.7%) of these calls involved teens aged … for females, 59% of suicide-related 911 calls were due to a drug overdose while 33% were for males. AHCA There … between 2005 and 2007 demonstrated the following: 90% of all arrests were among males, Blacks had an arrest rate …