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Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers
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The effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response systems depends, in part, on the effectiveness of communication between agencies and individuals involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in… read more -
The validity of emergency department influenza-like-illness (ILI) for laboratory-confirmed influenza in children
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Syndromic surveillance systems use electronic health-related data to support near-real time disease surveillance. Over the last 10 years, the use of ILI syndromes defined from emergency department (ED) data has become an increasingly accepted… read more -
Field-based Evaluation of Malaria Outbreak Detection & Response, Mudzi and Goromonzi
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Infectious disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, highlight the need for surveillance systems to quickly detect outbreaks and provide data to prevent future pandemics. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Joint… read more