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Methods to Measure Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health for Indian Adolescents
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Health inequalities are major global public health problem and varies within and between countries. LMICs particularly India, are undergoing a phase of rapid economic development leading to an increase in informal settlements or urban slums. These… read more -
Military and Civilian Disease Outbreaks: A Comparative Analysis
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Using influenza like illness (ILI) data from the repository held by AFHSC, and publically available malaria data we characterized similarities and differences between military and civilian outbreaks. Pete Riley et al. utilized a similar ILI dataset… read more -
Exploring Usability of School Closure Data for Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance
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School children are the primary introducers and significant transmission sources of influenza virus among their families and surrounding communities [1,2]. Therefore, schools play an important role in amplifying influenza transmission in communities… read more -
Extending an Uncertainty Taxonomy for Suspected Pneumonia Case Review
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Natural language processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason about whether these mentions provide evidence that supports, refutes, or represents uncertainty. Our efforts extend… read more -
Epidemics of the “common cold” and the dynamics of severe asthma exacerbation
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Common colds are one of the principal causes of severe exacerbations in asthmatic people, reflected in epidemic-like waves of asthma hospitalizations. Most studies do not estimate the effect of infectious causes of exacerbations, and cannot account… read more -
Facilitating the Sharing of Patient Information Between Health Care Providers
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In the current state of the health care system there is uneven access to primary care, and too many people struggling to navigate the system are receiving care in the hospital for issues that would be better dealt with in the community, and then are… read more -
Factors Influencing the Stability and Quality of the French ED Surveillance System
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Since 2004, the French syndromic surveillance system Oscour® has been implemented by the national institute for public health surveillance (InVS) and is daily used to detect and follow-up various public health events all over the territory [1].… read more -
Flea-Borne Rickettsiae in Almaty Oblast, Kazakhstan
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Flea-borne diseases in Kazakhstan have been a significant health risk to inhabitants and visitors for ages, particularly plague. Flea-borne rickettsial disease threats are unknown in Kazakhstan, we therefore initiated a study to detect and identify… read more