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Field Lessons from a Zoonotic Disease Study in the Nairobi Health Surveillance System
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About 60% of Nairobi residents live in slums with higher poverty, population density prevalence diseases and lower health access than the city average. Some residents own livestock or in are in contact with its products. Most slums dwellers work… read more -
Follow-up of Breast Cancer Patients in Ghana: Challenges to Community-based Surveillance
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Cancers are among the leading causes of deaths globally. In subSaharan Africa, cancer-related deaths have been projected to increase significantly in the next few decades. Information on cancer is essential in planning and implementing cancer… read more -
Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII – New Jersey, 2014
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In the summer of 2013, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) began planning for Super Bowl XLVIII to be held on February 2, 2014, in Met Life Stadium, located in the Meadowlands of Bergen County. Surveillance and epidemiology staff in the… read more -
Geo-based Social Media Analytics and SMART Dashboard for Tracking Influenza Outbreaks
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Active surveillance for influenza is a useful but costly endeavor. In recent years infoveillance tools have been developed to track and analyze data available on the Internet and social media (Eysenbach 2011). While infoveillance tools have been… read more -
Google Flu Trends: Spatial Correlation with Influenza Emergency Department Visits
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GFT is a surveillance tool that gathers data on local internet searches to estimate the emergence of influenza-like illness in a given geographic location in real time.3 Previously, GFT has been proven to strongly correlate with influenza incidence… read more -
HIV Surveillance: Life Skills Education Programme among in-school Adolescents
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Reduction in HIV transmission needs continuous, comprehensive and effective communication channels to disseminate messages that will sustain efforts to motivate adolescents to engage in a range of options to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Life… read more -
How Should We Be Conducting Routine Analysis of Traditional Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance Data?
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Along with commensurate funding, an increased emphasis on syndromic surveillance systems occurred post September 11, 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks. Since then, many syndromic surveillance systems have evolved and have ever-increasing… read more -
Identifying Congenital Syphilis Cases through a Birth Registry Match
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In 2012, Louisiana’s case rate for congenital syphilis was 49.2 cases per 100,000 live births, the highest in the nation and over six times the national average1. In Louisiana, case investigations for infants perinatally exposed to syphilis are… read more