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Developing a Guidance Document to Improve Public Health Surveillance during Disasters
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During all phases of the disaster management cycle, PH surveillance plays a valuable role. Surveillance provides PH officials and stakeholders the information they need to respond to disasters and take action in an appropriate and timely manner.… read more… disaster surveillance. Further, there is no standardized guidance on implementing or modifying surveillance for a domestic disaster. This document seeks to fill this gap, providing guidance on … disaster surveillance. Further, there is no standardized guidance on implementing or modifying surveillance for a … -
Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… monitoring of online documents is challenging. Automated document classification is an important step toward … Medical Center, supervised and unsupervised approaches to document classification are considered for event-based … ABSTRACT Document classification toward efficient event-based … -
Preparing for State Health Department Accreditation: Pivotal Roles for Public Health Surveillance
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On January 24, 2014, the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) released, to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department accreditation. Specifically, Standard 1.2 of the guidance… read more… to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department … accreditation. Specifically, Standard 1.2 of the guidance encompasses data collection. Two measures of … to the public, its Standards & Measures Version 1.5 guidance document for voluntary public health department … -
A review of automated text classification in event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more… pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) … blog entries, are primary information sources in it. Document classification is an important step to filter … literature review is to identify current challenges in document classification for event-based biosur- veillance … -
Georgia's Strategy for Targeting Syndromic Surveillance
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As part of public health protection activities conducted in support of the G8 Summit in Sea Island, GA, June 2004, DPH implemented SS in the state’s coastal region using information provided from ED visits, 911 calls, and pharmacy sales. Following… read more… its use in GA. Despite the emergence of practice-based guidance for conducting SS and the growing experience of public health agencies, little guidance is available regarding strategies for identifying … its use in GA. Despite the emer- gence of practice-based guidance for conducting SS and the growing experience of … -
Management tool to guide rabies elimination programmes
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Global targets for elimination of human rabies mediated by dogs have been set for 2030. In the Americas countries are progressing towards interruption of transmission and declaration of rabies freedom1. Guidance for managing elimination programmes… read more… of transmission and declaration of rabies freedom1. Guidance for managing elimination programmes to ensure … of progress, and through their identification, tailored guidance can be provided. Objective To provide surveillance … of transmission and declaration of rabies freedom1. Guidance for managing elimination programmes to ensure … -
Improving quality and interoperability of public health messaging guides: CDC messaging quality framework
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The HL7 messaging standard, version two that was implemented by most vendors and public health agencies did not resolve all systems’ interoperability problems. Design and tool implementation for automated machine-testing … read more… of electronic public health systems. Objective This document describes the Public Health Information Network … communicating quality, standard electronic messages. Document … CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: dgz1@cdc.gov Objective This document describes the Public Health Information Network … -
Improving quality and interoperability of public health messaging guides: CDC messaging quality framework (MQF)
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The HL7 messaging standard, version two that was implemented by most vendors and public health agencies did not resolve all systems’ interoperability problems. Design and tool implementation for automated machine-testing messages may resolve… read more… of electronic public health systems. Objective This document describes the Public Health Information Network … and communicating quality, standard electronic messages. Document … CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: dgz1@cdc.gov Objective This document describes the Public Health Information Network …