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A Data Mining Approach to Identify Climatic Determinants of Dengue Fever Patterns in French Guiana
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Epidemic dynamics of dengue fever are driven by complex interactions between hosts, vectors and viruses that are influenced by environmental and climatic factors [1]. The development of new methods to identify such specific characteristics becomes… read more -
A Dictionary-based Method for Detecting Anomalous Chief Complaint Text in Individual Records
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The success of syndromic surveillance depends on the ability of the surveillance community to quickly and accurately recognize anomalous data. Current methods of anomaly detection focus on sets of syndromic categories and rely on a priori knowledge… read more -
African One Health e-Surveillance Initiative
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can enhance public health surveillance (PHS) by facilitating the digital exchange of information. Electronic surveillance (e-Surveillance) is the use of electronic systems to empower the digitization of… read more -
A Health and Demographic Surveillance System in a Low Socioeconomic Setting in Karachi, Pakistan
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Karachi is the largest metropolitan, principal port city and commercial hub of Pakistan. Although there is a national database for registering vital evens such as births and deaths but like in any other developing country the coverage of the system… read more -
A National Electronic System for Disease Surveillance in Rwanda (eIDSR): Lessons Learned from a Successful Implementation
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In Rwanda, communicable diseases represent about 90% of all reported medical consultations in health centers. The country has often faced epidemics including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. To enhance its preparedness to identify and… read more -
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 -
A Systematic Review of Influenza Forecasting Studies
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Researchers have developed varied methods for forecasting influenza activity using surveillance data with predictive models, but real-world applications in public health programs are rare. To inform consideration of whether and how public health… read more -
A Tool for Interactive Disease Outbreak Visualization, Detection, and Forecasting
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Interactive tools for visualization of disease outbreaks has been improving markedly in the past few years. With the flagships Google Flutrends1 and HealthMap2 providing prime examples. These tools provide interactive access to the general public… read more