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Legislation and policy changes for Tuberculosis Surveillance in Mongolia: A qualitative analysis
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Mongolia is one of countries in the WHO Western Pacific Region with a high TB burden. The National Stop TB Strategy 2010-2015 implemented and developed strong surveillance and response system in the country. However, new TB incidence and deaths have… read more -
Data Blindspots: High-Tech Disease Surveillance Misses the Poor
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Evidence from over 100 years of epidemiological study demonstrates a consistent, negative association between health and economic prosperity. In many settings, it is clear that causal links exist between lower socioeconomic status and both reduced… read more -
Leptospirosis, Climate and Satellite-based Environmental Factors: A Temporal Modeling
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Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the pathogenic Leptospira bacteria and is ubiquitously distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. Leptospirosis transmission driven by complex factors include climatic, environmental and local… read more -
Lessons Learned from a DoD and Virginia Data Sharing Pilot using NSSP ESSENCE
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The DoD and VDH both maintain local ESSENCE installations to monitor the health status of their military and civilian populations, respectively, and submit syndromic surveillance data to the NSSP ESSENCE to foster data sharing and collaborative… read more -
Lessons Learned from an Extreme Heat Event using ACES for Situational Awareness, Ontario, Canada
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The Acute Care Enhanced Surveillance (ACES) system provides syndromic surveillance for Ontario's acute care hospitals. ACES receives over 99% of acute care records for emergency department (ED) visits; mean daily volume is 17,500 visits. ACES uses a… read more -
Linking Emergency Medical Service Data to Death Records for Opioid Mortality Surveillance
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Opioid abuse has increased exponentially in recent years throughout the United States, leading to an increase in the incidence of emergency response activities, hospitalization, and mortality related to opioid overdose. As a result, states that have… read more -
Making Syndromic Surveillance Relevant and Valuable for Emergency Managers
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Intense stress can severely degrade one's ability to process and utilize new kinds of information.1 This psychological phenomena may partially explain why epidemiologist are challenged to communicate and establish the value of SyS information with… read more -
Malaria burden through routing reporting: Relationship between incidence estimates
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Routine surveillance is an important global strategy for malaria control. However, there have been few studies comparing routine indicators of burden, including test positivity rate (TPR) and test-confirmed malaria case rates (CMCR), over spatial… read more