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Environmental Scan of the US States’ and Other Countries’ Notifiable Disease Provisional Data Online Display: Results and Recommendations
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The NNDSS is the public health surveillance system that enables all levels of public health (local, state, territorial, and federal) to monitor the occurrence and spread of the diseases and conditions that the Council of State and Territorial… read more -
Establishing a Pilot Surveillance System for Venous Thromboembolism
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The U.S. Surgeon General's 2008 Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) raised the importance of conducting surveillance for VTE. VTE comprises PE and DVT and collectively is responsible for estimated 350,000… read more -
Estimation of Basic Reproduction Number of Enterovirus 71, Coxsackievirus A6 and A16 in Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Outbreaks in Singapore
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Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common childhood viral infection, characterised by a brief febrile illness, vesicular rashes on the hands and feet and mouth ulcers. HFMD is endemic in Singapore, with more than 50% of cases occurring in… read more -
Evaluating a Seasonal ARIMA Model for Event Detection in New York City
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ARIMA models use past values (autoregressive terms) and past forecasting errors (moving average terms) to generate future forecasts, making it a potential candidate method for modeling citywide time series of syndromic data [1]. While past research… read more -
Respiratory and circulatory deaths attributable to influenza A & B
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Assigning causes of deaths to seasonal infectious diseases is difficult in part due to laboratory testing prior to death being uncommon. Since influenza (and other common respiratory pathogens) are therefore notoriously underreported as a (… read more -
Performance of Early Outbreak Detection Algorithms in Public Health Surveillance from a Simulation Study
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Early detection of outbreaks is crucial in public health surveillance in order to enable rapid control measures. Statistical methods are widely used for outbreak detection but no study has proposed to evaluate and compare thoroughly the… read more -
Place Matters: Revealing Infectious Disease Disparities Using Area-Based Poverty
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Most public health surveillance systems in the United States do not capture individual-level measures of socioeconomic position. Without this information, socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes can be hidden. However, US Census data can be… read more -
The Role of Tobacco Surveillance to obtain Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and deaths in Georgia. About 10.1% of deaths among adults in Georgia are linked to smoking related illnesses. Most first use of cigarettes occurs by age 18 (87%), with nearly all-first use by… read more