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Understanding Socio-Cultural Factors related to Obesity: Sentiment Analysis on related Tweets
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Obesity can lead to the death of at least 2.8 million people each year1, yet the rate of obesity around the world has continuously increased over the past 30 years1. Societal changes, including increased food consumption and decreased physical… read more -
University-Community Partnership to Enhance Public Health Communication
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A Case of Effective Community-Based Collaborations For this case, the Visual Integration of Science through Art (VISTA) at Louisiana Tech University (Tech) partnered with the non-profit Lincoln Health Foundation to produce image-intensive… read more -
Updates to the HL7 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Syndromic Surveillance
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In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance v. 1. In the intervening years, new technological advancements including Electronic Health Record capabilities, as well as new… read more -
Use of ambulance dispatch calls for surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections?
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Surveillance of severe influenza infections is lacking in the Netherlands. Ambulance dispatch (AD) data may provide information about severity of the influenza epidemic and its burden on emergency services. The current gold standard, primary care-… read more -
Use of ESSENCE APIs to Support Flexible Analysis and Reporting
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The ESSENCE application supports users' interactive analysis of data by clicking through menus in a user interface (UI), and provides multiple types of user defined data visualization options, including various charts and graphs, tables of… read more -
Evaluating the BioSense Syndrome for Heat-Related Illness in Maricopa County, Arizona
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Monitoring heat-related illness (HRI) is a public health priority in Maricopa County, Arizona. Since 2006, Maricopa County Department of Public Health has utilized data from hospital discharges, medical examiner preliminary reports, and death… read more -
Use of N-grams and Term Relationship Graphs in the Syndrome Definition Development Process
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems has evolved over the last decade, and increasingly includes both infectious and non- infectious topic areas. Public health agencies at the national, state, and local levels often need to rapidly develop new… read more -
Use of slaughter condemnation data to detect cattle health events in near real-time
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Data collected at livestock slaughter can be a useful source of non-specific health indicators including clinical signs, symptoms and proxy measures [1]. When monitored in near real-time, this data can enable the detection of both livestock and… read more