Displaying results 273 - 280 of 2343
-
Can Internet Searches Provide Useful Data For Public Health Surveillance?
Content Type: Abstract
Internet-based technologies have been used to assist in disease surveillance and reporting. The Public Health Agency of Canada operates the Global Public Health Information Network, credited with early notification of many outbreaks (… read more -
Can Monitoring Telehealth Ontario Respiratory Call Volume be a Component of an Effective Public Health Influenza Surveillance Strategy?
Content Type: Abstract
Influenza epidemics occur seasonally, impose a high economic burden on the health care system, and are responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality (1). The past century has seen three influenza A pandemics with variable severity. The recent… read more -
Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?
Content Type: Abstract
A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more -
Enhanced Aedes spp. surveillance across jurisdictions in Arizona’s border region
Content Type: Abstract
As part of a statewide effort to enhance surveillance for Aedes spp.mosquitoes the Office of Border Health (OBH) took the lead inproviding technical assistance on surveillance in counties bordering Mexico. In 2016, OBH sought ways to enhance… read more -
Exploring the Role of Quest Diagnostics Corporate Data Warehouse for Timely Influenza Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
A Quest Diagnostics Incorporated – CDC collaboration in 2000 pioneered exploration of test ordering data to enhance infectious diseasessurveillance1. This year’s unexpected shortage of vaccine and… read more -
Extending Comparisons Beyond Time and Space: Looking for Similarities Between Diseases
Content Type: Abstract
Early detection of new diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy is the subject of great interest (Gibbens et al., 2008). Understanding whether a disease is infectious or sporadic becomes essential for the application of control measures.… read more -
Notifiable Disease Reporting among Physicians Practicing in Grenada
Content Type: Abstract
Despite the significance of disease reporting to any health system, Grenada like most countries struggle with underreporting of notifiable diseases by physicians. In order to improve the national disease surveillance system in Grenada, it is… read more -
Extensibility in Semantic Web Description of Syndromic Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Abstract
The semantic web is an emerging technology for expressing rich descriptions of a problem domain in the form of ontologies. An ontology provides a domain specific knowledge base… read more