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Surveillance on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in East Asia
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Regional disease surveillance as well as data transparency and sharing are the global trend for mitigating the threat of infectious diseases. The WHO has already played a leading role in FluNet (http:// www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/flunet/… read more -
Surveillance System Evaluations Provide Evidence to Improve Public Health Practice
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A simplified syndromic surveillance system, based on early detection and reporting of four core syndromes and immediate reporting of unusual events, was established across PICTs in 2010. An early evaluation of the system was undertaken to make… 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 -
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 -
Identifying Emerging Novel Outbreaks In Textual Emergency Department Data
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Typical approaches to monitoring ED data classify cases into pre-defined syndromes and then monitor syndrome counts for anomalies. However, syndromes cannot be created to identify every possible cluster of cases of relevance to public health. To… read more -
Impact of Demographics on Healthcare Utilization
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was promoted with two goals: expanding health insurance coverage and reducing healthcare costs. Expanded coverage is expected to partially reduce costs. Emergency department (ED) visits are costlier than comparable… read more -
Keeping a Public Health Surveillance Practice up to Speed: a Training Strategy to Build Capacity
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Public health surveillance practice is evolving rapidly. In the past decade we have witnessed the globalization of health threats, the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, and an explosion of easily accessible new technologies. This… read more