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A Semantic Framework to Improve Interoperability of Malaria Surveillance Systems
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In 2015, there were 212 million new cases of malaria, and about 429,000 malaria death, worldwide. African countries accounted for almost 90% of global cases of malaria and 92% of malaria deaths. Currently, malaria data are scattered across different… read more -
Developing the Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance (SDIDS) Platform
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Electronic data that could be used for global health surveillance are fragmented across diseases, organizations, and countries. This fragmentation frustrates efforts to analyze data and limits the amount of information available to guide disease… read more -
Zika Virus Speed and Direction: Reconstructing Zika Introduction in Brazil
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Local transmission of Zika virus has been confirmed in 67 countries worldwide and in 46 countries or territories in the Americas. On February 1, 2016 the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to… read more -
The influence of address errors on detecting outbreaks of campylobacteriosis
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Mandatory notification to public health of priority communicable diseases (CDs) is a cornerstone of disease prevention and control programs. Increasingly, the addresses of CD cases are used for spatial monitoring and cluster detection… read more -
Predicting Malaria in a Highly Endemic Country using Environmental and Clinical Data Sources
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In 1911, Christophers developed an early-warning system for malaria epidemics in Punjab based on rainfall, fever-related deaths and wheat prices. Since that initial system, researchers and practitioners have continued to search for determinants of… 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 -
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