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Responder Safety, Tracking, and Resilience — Georgia, 2016 –2017
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During an emergency, the state of Georgia depends on public health staff and volunteers to respond. It is imperative that staff are safe before, during and after deployment. Emergency response workers must be protected from the hazardous conditions… read more -
HL7 Terminology Management for Disease Surveillance
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In 2013, the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) began working with hospital and reference laboratories to implement electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) of reportable communicable disease data. Laboratories utilize HL7 message structure and standard… read more -
Approaching Evaluations of Surveillance System Pilots through an Ownership Perspective
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Pilot projects help determine utility and feasibility of a system, but even if considered successful, cost could prevent further scale-up. When evaluating a surveillance system pilot, cost and benefits are key factors to examine. In Cote dâIvoire… read more -
Prioritizing Zoonotic Diseases in North America Including a Demonstration on a Disease Prioritization Tool
Content Type: Webinar
The first part of the presentation will present on a disease prioritization study that was conducted in 2010-2011 to prioritize zoonotic diseases in North America using a quantitative method called Conjoint Analysis. The second part of the… read more -
Tracking Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Missouri: Trends and the ICD-CM Transition
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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) rates have tripled for Missouri residents in the past three years. NAS is a condition infants suffer soon after birth due to withdrawal after becoming opioid-dependent in the womb. NAS has significant immediate… read more -
Epi Info Cloud Data Analytics to improve quality of HIV Surveillance in Vietnam.
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HIV surveillance in Vietnam is comprised of different surveillance systems including the HIV sentinel surveillance (HSS). The HSS is an annual, multi-site survey to monitor HIV sero-prevalence and risk behaviors among key populations. In 2015, the… read more -
Return of test results in Vietnam HIV sentinel surveillance: Implementation and preliminary results
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Knowledge of oneâs HIV serostatus helps improve quality of life for those who test positive and decreases the risk of HIV transmission. WHO recommends that all participants in HIV prevalence surveys be provided access to their test results,… read more -
Epizootic Monitoring of Erysipeloid Foci in the Republic of Armenia, 2007-2016
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Erysipeloid is a zoonotic bacterial infection transmitted to humans from animals. Symptoms include inflamed joints and skin; there is also a generalized type of the infection in which bacteria spread through the lymphatic and blood vessels, leading… read more