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Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance
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In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more… J 2011;4(Suppl 1). *Taj Azarian E-mail: tajazari@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … -
Syndrome evaluation of individuals reporting emergency department utilization for notifiable disease and conditions
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The Duval County Health Department (DCHD) serves a community of over one million people in Jacksonville, FL, USA. Each year, DCHD Epidemiology Program reports an average of 1133 (4-year average) notifiable diseases and conditions (NDC)… read more… Azarian et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 9 non-verbal and as a result, signs such … critical bioterrorism-associated agents, 2003, http://www.bt.cdc. gov/surveillance/syndromedef/. ER utilization … Health Threats Journal T Azarian et al. 2011, 4:s63 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 10 … -
Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources
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Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more… et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 44 identify clusters by the time … Health Threats Journal A Kite-Powell et al. 2011, 4:s89 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 45 … -
Public health surveillance after the Haiti earthquake: the Florida experience
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On 12 January 2010 at 1652 hours local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and created enormous devastation. Florida, as the state closest to Haiti, became an initial focal point… read more… et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 21 activities. In addition, the findings … Health Threats Journal A Kite-Powell et al. 2011, 4:s33 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 22 … -
A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival
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One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more… Burkom et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 13 …