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HealthMap
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
HealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children's Hospital founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time… read more -
Flu Near You
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
Early detection and early response are key to preventing the spread of any disease. We believe that letting individuals report symptoms in real-time can complement traditional tracking while providing useful information directly to the public.… read more -
R Software Environment Resources
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
What is R? R is a language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a variety of UNIX platforms, Windows, and MacOS. It is similar to the S language and environment - in fact,… read more -
Impact of Patient Self-Registration in Emergency Departments on Syndromic Surveillance Data
Content Type: Abstract
The Florida Department of Health electronically receives hospital emergency department (ED) data from 180 EDs located in 54 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (… read more -
Improving Local Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance within a Changing Data Environment
Content Type: Abstract
LHDs are operating in a changing data environment. As household telephone use declines, national surveys are not sampling large enough populations to report representative local health statistics. As a result, reliable indicators from surveys such… read more -
Inconsistency of Timeliness in a Chief Complaint-Based Syndromic Surveillance System During Two Influenza Epidemic Seasons
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic surveillance system has been developed and implemented all over the world, and many studies showed that syndromic data sources had improved timeliness towards traditional surveillance method in the early warning of some infectious disease… read more -
Influenza Surveillance in Mozambique: Results and Challenges from the First Year of Implementation
Content Type: Abstract
In Mozambique about 10% of deaths in children are due to ARI. Although influenza (Flu) virus may be implicated in these infections, little is known about the circulation of this virus in the country. Thus, Mozambique implemented the influenza… read more -
Insight into Malaria Transmission and Control in Endemic Areas
Content Type: Abstract
The global effort of malaria control is in line with the one world one health concept, but then a globally defined ‘‘one-size-fits-all’’ malaria control strategy would be inefficient in endemic areas. Plasmodium falciparum is the type of malaria… read more