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A Probabilistic Case-finding Algorithm for Chronic Disease Surveillance
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There is a clear need for improved surveillance of chronic diseases to guide public health practice and policy. Chronic disease surveillance has tended to use administrative data, due to the need to link encounters for an individual over time and to… read more -
Digital Sources of Food Purchasing Data for the Surveillance of Dietary Patterns
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In Canada, the economic impact of unhealthy eating is estimated at $6.3 billion annually and in the US the estimated cost is $87 billion. Despite the critical need to identify effective diet-related interventions through empirical evaluation, public… read more -
Monitoring Media Content About Vaccines in the United States: Data from the Vaccine Sentimeter
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The success of public health campaigns in decreasing or eliminating the burden of vaccine-preventable diseases can be undermined by media content influencing vaccine hesitancy in the population. A tool for tracking and describing the ever-growing… read more -
A Novel Method for Defining Health Facility Catchment Areas in a Low Income Country
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The catchment area of a health-care facility is used to assess health service utilization and calculate population-based rates of disease. Current approaches for catchment definition have significant limitations such as being based solely on… read more -
A Semantic Web Platform for Online Vaccine Sentiment Surveillance
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Real-time monitoring and analysis of vaccine concerns over time and location could help immunisation programmes to tailor more effective and timely strategies to address specific public health concerns. In recent years attempts [1, 2] are being made… read more -
Integrated Disease Surveillance to Reduce Data Fragmentation - An Application to Malaria Control
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There is growing recognition that an inability to access timely health indicators can hamper both the design and the effective implementation of infectious diseases control interventions. In malaria control, the global use of standard interventions… read more -
A Framework for Detecting and Classifying Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Disease
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Outbreaks of waterborne gastrointestinal disease occur routinely in North America, resulting in considerable morbidity, mortality, and cost (Hrudey, Payment et al. 2003). Outbreak detection methods generally attempt to identify anomalies in time,… read more -
Towards a Framework for Data Quality Properties of Indicators used in Surveillance
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Effective use of data for disease surveillance depends critically on the ability to trust and quantify the quality of source data. The Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance project is developing tools to integrate and present… read more