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  • Impact of Staff Qualification and Training on Performance of the Core Function Activities (CFA) of the Communicable Disease Surveillance System, Gazera State, Sudan, 2009

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    This study assessed the performance of the core function activities (CFA) of the Communicable Disease Surveillance system and response (CDSs) existing in Gazera State. The first assessment of disease surveillance being conducted in the area during… read more
    … study is to assess the impact of staff qualification and training on the performance of Core Function Activities … study is to assess the impact of staff qualification and training on the performance of Core Function Activities …
  • Decrease Epidemiological Threats with Environmental Controls and Testing

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    The Decrease Epidemiological Threats with Environmental Controls and Testing (DETECT) program consisted of a four month initiative to provide a two-day in-depth training modified from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) Epi-Ready… read more
    … of a four month initiative to provide a two-day in-depth training modified from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) Epi-Ready training. In each Public Health Area, Central Office … information to county and area Public Health staff. To train and equip field staff in the management of foodborne …
  • Using Evaluation to Inform the BioSense Platform: Results from a 2018 Survey

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    Since 2015, CDC’s Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance staff have conducted evaluations to provide information on the utility, functionality, usability and user satisfaction associated with the National Syndromic Surveillance… read more
    … allows users to access site data on the datamart; and 4) Rstudio, an application that can be used for data analysis … allows users to access site data on the datamart; and 4) Rstudio, an application that can be used for data analysis …
  • MNCH Surveillance-Response Systems Strengthening in Indonesia

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    During 2007 - 2010 the Center for Health service Management (CHSM) conducted training and consultations to strengthen the Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health (MNCH) Surveillance-Response (S-R) Systems of 10 districts and 5 municipalities of 5… read more
    … the Center for Health service Management (CHSM) conducted training and consultations to strengthen the Maternal, … strengthening was carried out by means of two 2-day training sessions (of approximately one year apart) at the … electronic telecommunication. The subject matter of the training sessions courses and consultations consisted of: …
  • Tracking Health Effects of Wildfires: The Oregon ESSENCE Wildfire Pilot Project

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    Wildfires occur annually in Oregon, and the health risks of wildfire smoke are well documented1. Before implementing syndromic surveillance through Oregon ESSENCE, assessing the health effects of wildfires in real time was very challenging. Summer… read more
    … their surveillance needs and practices and developed a training program to increase capacity to conduct surveillance at the local level. Following the training, one of the LPHAs integrated syndromic surveillance …
  • Developing policy to support novel Caribbean Tourism and Health surveillance program

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    In January 2016, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), serving 24 Member States(MS), began executing a regional Tourism and Health program (THP), recognizing that the health of Caribbean economies is closely related to the health of its… read more
    … visitor/tourism illnesses. This coupled with inadequate training, lack of standards and collaboration between … system (THiS), food safety and environmental sanitation training, standards and multisectoral health and tourism …
  • Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance

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    Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… read more
    … algorithm selection, and hierarchical fusion network training [1]. Subsequent efforts have produced a full … only 39 reported historical events were available for training and calibration of 3 networks designed for fusion … presentation describes advances to formalize the network training, calibrate the component alerting algorithms and …
  • Optimizing Performance of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome

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    A number of different methods are currently used to classify patients into syndromic groups based on the patient’s chief complaint (CC). We previously reported results using an “Ngram” text processing program for building classifiers… read more
    … AT&T Labs). The method applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 … Ngrams), with associated probabilities, from the training data. We then generate a CC classifier from the … AT&T Labs). The method applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 …