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Implementation of a Mobile-Based Surveillance System in Saudi Arabia for the 2009 Hajj
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The Hajj is considered to be the largest mass gathering to date, attracting an estimated 2.5 million Muslims from more than 160 countries annually. The H1N1 Influenza A pandemic of 2009 generated a global wave of concern among public health… read moreImprovement Control System of Rabies in Ukraine
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In Ukraine in spite of considerable financial expenses on oral immunization of foxes and parenteral immunization of dogs and cats, it is not succeeded to reach considerable results in the fight with rabies. Unfortunately there was a negative… read moreImproving ILI Surveillance using Hospital Staff Influenza-like Absence (ILA)
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Surveillance of influenza in the US, UK and other countries is based primarily on measures of influenza-like illness (ILI), through a combination of syndromic surveillance systems, however, this method may not capture the full spectrum of illness or… read moreBuiliding Methods for a Proactive Prescription Drug Surveillance System
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) are operating in 49 states and several U.S. territories. Current methods for surveillance of prescription drug related behaviors, include the mean daily dosage of morphine milligram equivalent (MME) per… read moreExtracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities
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The main stay of recording patient data is the free text of electronic medical records (EMR). While stating the chief complaint and history of presenting illness in the patients ‘own words’, the rest of the electronic note is written by the provider… read moreExtraction of Disease Occurrence Patterns Using MiSTIC: Salmonellosis in Florida
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Infectious diseases, though initially tend to be limited geographically to a reservoir; a subsequent spatial variation in disease prevalence (including spread & intensity) arises from the underlying differences in physical-biological conditions… read moreInternational Collaboration for Improved Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response in India
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The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, provides a framework that supports efforts to improve global health security and requires that, member states develop and strengthen systems and capacity for disease surveillance and detection and… read moreLocalized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations
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The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more