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Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance
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The North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS) serves public health users across North Carolina at the local, regional and state levels, providing syndromic surveillance capabilities. At the state level,… read more -
Increasing Local Access to Syndromic Surveillance Data
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In the spring of 2005, the ISDH began using Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance… read more -
Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities
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Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more -
FSWs Typology and Condoms Use Among HIV High Risk Groups in Sindh, Pakistan: A Developing Country Perspective
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HIV is growing rapidly worldwide resulting in estimated 34 million population. Recently, its epidemic has spread in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and most parts of Asia. According to Antenatal sero surveillance study conducted in 2011 by… read more -
Fusion Analytics: A Data Integration System for Public Health and Medical Disaster Response Decision Support
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Fusion Analytics is the data integration system developed by the Fusion Cell at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). Fusion Analytics meaningfully augments… read more -
Geographical Information Systems: A Tool to Map and Analyze Disease Spread
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Spatial methods are an important component of epidemiological research motivated by a strong correlation between disease spread and ecological factors. Our case studies examine the relationship between environmental conditions, such as climate and… read more -
HIV Surveillance in India: An Overview & Implications for Future
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Surveillance of risky behaviors of HIV infection and its manifest diseases has provided a better understanding of the complex nature of the HIV epidemic in India. However, little attempt is made to analyze progress of these surveillance activities… read more -
Identification and Assessment of Public Health Surveillance Gaps under the IHR (2005)
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Under the revised International Health Regulations (IHR [2005]) one of the eight core capacities is public health surveillance. In May 2012, despite a concerted effort by the global community, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported out that a… read more