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Primer: Opioid-related Public Health Emergency Declarations
Content Type: References
This Primer, published by the Network for Public Health Law on November 17, 2017, and updated on August 1, 2018, on Opioid-related Public Health Emergencies provides key information and visual snapshots of federal, state, tribal, and local emergency… read more -
Using Weather and Environmental Data in ESSENCE
Content Type: References
This document developed by the Oregon Public Health Division, Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention, is designed to help Oregon ESSENCE users create and interpret time series graphs that overlay health and weather or air quality data from a… read more -
Oregon Poison Center and Oregon Public Health Division Monitoring for the 2017 Solar Eclipse
Content Type: Webinar
Presented November 31, 2017 by the Oregon Poison Center and Oregon Public Health Division Monitoring. Presenters: Sandy Giffin, RN, MS, Director, Oregon Poison Center Laurel Boyd, MPH,… read more -
Statistical Monitoring of Condemnations from Slaughterhouses
Content Type: Abstract
Meat inspection data are routinely collected over several years providing the possibility to use historical data for constructing a baseline model defining the expected normal behaviour of the indicator monitored. In countries in which the reporting… read more -
Fever in Children - an Assessment of Validity by a Shewhart Model in a Syndromic Surveillance System in China
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Since April 2012, an integrated syndromic surveillance system in rural China (ISSC) has been established in health facilities in two rural counties of Jiangxi Province, China [1]. The objective of ISSC is to integrate syndromic surveillance with… read more -
Field Lessons from a Zoonotic Disease Study in the Nairobi Health Surveillance System
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About 60% of Nairobi residents live in slums with higher poverty, population density prevalence diseases and lower health access than the city average. Some residents own livestock or in are in contact with its products. Most slums dwellers work… read more -
Follow-up of Breast Cancer Patients in Ghana: Challenges to Community-based Surveillance
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Cancers are among the leading causes of deaths globally. In subSaharan Africa, cancer-related deaths have been projected to increase significantly in the next few decades. Information on cancer is essential in planning and implementing cancer… read more -
Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII – New Jersey, 2014
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In the summer of 2013, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) began planning for Super Bowl XLVIII to be held on February 2, 2014, in Met Life Stadium, located in the Meadowlands of Bergen County. Surveillance and epidemiology staff in the… read more