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Dengue Fever Outbreak Prediction
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Dengue fever is endemic in over 100 countries and there are an estimated 50 - 100 million cases annually. There is no vaccine for dengue fever yet, and the mortality rate of the severe form of the disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever, ranges from 10-20… read moreWeb Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: a New Model for Dengue Surveillance
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With an estimated 500 million people infected each year, dengue ranks as one of the most significant mosquito-borne viral human diseases, and one of the most rapidly emerging vectorborne diseases. A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and… read moreNovel approach to hypoglycemia surveillance in an international online diabetes social network
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Hypoglycemia is a serious sequela of diabetes treatment that is not tracked by current health surveillance efforts despite substantial related morbidity and mortality. We take a novel approach to hypoglycemia surveillance, engaging members of an… read moreMapping the uncertainty of non-contagious disease clusters boundaries in Brazil
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The intrinsic variability that exists in the cases counting data for aggregated-area maps amounts to a corresponding uncertainty in the delineation of the most likely cluster found by methods based on the spatial scan statistics [3]. If this cluster… read moreSpatial cluster detection through constrained dynamic programming
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The spatial scan statistic [1] is the most used measure for cluster strenght. The evaluation of all possible subsets of regions in a large dataset is computationally infeasible. Many heuristics have appeared recently to compute approximate values… read moreUsing a Bayesian Method to Assess Google, Twitter, and Wikipedia for ILI Surveillance
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Traditional influenza surveillance relies on reports of influenzalike illness (ILI) by healthcare providers, capturing individuals who seek medical care and missing those who may search, post, and tweet about their illnesses instead. Existing… read moreHealthSIS: a solution for Local Public Health Reporting and Surveillance in KY
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Multiple options (1,2) are available for health care provider organizations to receive assistance in demonstrating compliance with meaningful use requirements for public health reporting (3). A certified EHR solution is a requirement for… read moreHierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
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The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more