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Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course
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Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more… health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians … AMIA0 s 10 ! 10 program aims to realize the goal of training 10,000 health care professionals in applied health … - 12:27 … ABSTRACT Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public … -
An Innovative Approach to Surveillance Training in the African Region
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Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) is a World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) strategy for strengthening national public health surveillance and response systems in African countries. The strategy… read more… more than 30 countries have conducted at least one IDSR training workshop. Limited resources preclude conducting … solution is to implement an electronic version for IDSR training. In collaboration with WHO-AFRO, we conducted a … -
The Effect of Training of School Physicians on Their Knowledge Regarding Surveillance in Alexandria
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Schools inherently foster the transmission of infections from person to person because they are a group setting in which people are in close contact and share supplies and equipment. Surveillance is important in schools and actions that can help… read more… should play an important role in surveillance. Their training on data collection, analysis, reporting and … of diseases. Objective We assessed the effect of a training program on the knowledge of school physicians … -
Impact of training on Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in Nigeria
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Public health surveillance (also called field epidemiology) as defined by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the ongoing systematic, collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome specific data essential to the planning ,… read more… strategy. Objective To evaluate the immediate impact of training on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response … number not for citation purpose) Table 1. Results of IDSR training. Respondents’ performance Pretest Posttest Test … -
Using laboratory and medical encounter records to identify impact of prophylaxis policies on group A Streptococcus in three recruit training facilities
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Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant morbidity and, on occasion, has been linked to deaths. Streptococcal surveillance has long been a… read more… Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant … public health activities. All Navy and Marine Corps training sites are required to track and record … measure against GABHS outbreaks at recruit training sites. Though streptococcal control program … -
Using laboratory and medical encounter records to identify impact of prophylaxis policies on group A Streptococcus in three recruit training facilities
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Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant morbidity and, on occasion, has been linked to deaths. Streptococcal surveillance has long been a part of military… read more… Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant … public health activities. All Navy and Marine Corps training sites are required to track and record positive … control measure against GABHS outbreaks at recruit training sites. Though streptococcal control program … -
Keeping a Public Health Surveillance Practice up to Speed: a Training Strategy to Build Capacity
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Public health surveillance practice is evolving rapidly. In the past decade we have witnessed the globalization of health threats, the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, and an explosion of easily accessible new technologies. This… read more… future public health challenges. We developed a five day training course that focused on the practical use of … future public health challenges. We developed a five day training course that focused on the practical use of … -
Modeling the risk of heat illness among basic training populations within the DoD, 2010–2017
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Although effective preventive measures for heat-related illness have been recommended and mandated for military personnel, there continues to be incident cases. In 2016, there were 401 incident cases of heat stroke and 2,135 incident cases of â… read more… of developing exertional heat illness (EHI) among basic training populations in the Department of Defense. Submitted … of developing exertional heat illness (EHI) among basic training populations in the Department of Defense. … Modeling the risk of heat illness among basic training populations within the DoD, 2010–2017 …