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Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII – New Jersey, 2014
Content Type: Abstract
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 -
Geo-based Social Media Analytics and SMART Dashboard for Tracking Influenza Outbreaks
Content Type: Abstract
Active surveillance for influenza is a useful but costly endeavor. In recent years infoveillance tools have been developed to track and analyze data available on the Internet and social media (Eysenbach 2011). While infoveillance tools have been… read more -
Google Flu Trends: Spatial Correlation with Influenza Emergency Department Visits
Content Type: Abstract
GFT is a surveillance tool that gathers data on local internet searches to estimate the emergence of influenza-like illness in a given geographic location in real time.3 Previously, GFT has been proven to strongly correlate with influenza incidence… read more -
HIV Surveillance: Life Skills Education Programme among in-school Adolescents
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Reduction in HIV transmission needs continuous, comprehensive and effective communication channels to disseminate messages that will sustain efforts to motivate adolescents to engage in a range of options to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Life… read more -
Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia** - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low… read more -
Exposure to Forces of Nature (Weather) Diagnosis Codes - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created to capture cases where the "exposure to forces of nature" diagnosis codes are sent. This was created as a starting place for weather surveillance and should capture all weather-related events that are explicitly stated and… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance 101 - Module 3: Response Algorithms, Data Display, and Websites
Content Type: Training
An Online Training Course ISDS, in partnership with the Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Health Care Institute, has created an online course in syndromic surveillance. This program is designed to increase knowledge and foster… read more -
Exposure to Forces of Nature (Weather) Diagnosis Codes - Excluding Heat/Sunlight Exposure - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created to capture records where the "exposure to forces of nature" diagnosis codes are sent, excluding Heat/Sunlight codes. The original syndrome captured all weather-related events that are explicitly stated and diagnosed, but… read more