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Electronic School Absenteeism System for Multiple Disease Surveillance in Hong Kong
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Surveillance systems utilizing early indicator of disease activity would be useful for monitoring community disease pattern and facilitating timely decision making on public health interventions in an evidence-based manner. School absenteeism has… read more -
Increasing Outbreak Detection Power by Data Transformations
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Syndromic surveillance involves the analysis of time series of health indicators to identify changes in disease patterns. To this end, statistical modeling is used to reduce systematic data variation. Still, there is variation that cannot be… read more -
Influenza Sentinel Surveillance in Lagos State Nigeria, 2009 _ 2011
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Outbreaks of Avian influenza (AI) in poultry were first reported in Nigeria in 2006 (1). The only human case was reported in 2007 (1). The epizootics of AI among poultry and wild birds and subsequent risk to human health highlighted the need to… read more -
Influenza Surveillance in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): 2012-2013 Influenza Season
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Influenza is associated with significant morbidity and mortality nationally each year and VA's large elderly population is at particular risk. VA Office of Public Health (OPH) has monitored influenza and influenza-like-illness (ILI) activity using… read more -
Informing U.S. Federal Public Health Preparation for Emerging Virus Pandemic Threats at Ports of Entry
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The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) has the responsibility to integrate, analyze, and share the nationÃs biosurveillance information provided from capabilities distributed across the public and private sectors. The integration of… read more -
Innovations in Population Health Surveillance Using Electronic Health Record Data
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EHRs are increasingly being adopted to improve quality of care in health care systems, but they also have potential to monitor health at the population level. There has been relatively little focus on using EHRs for population health surveillance… read more -
Inventory of Epidemiological Data Sources in Preparation of a Joint Analysis of Zoonotic Disease Information
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For the surveillance of zoonoses a vast amount of digital data is routinely being collected on three sectors, humans, animals and food. Depending on the origin and the purpose of the data collection, this information is stored in different databases… read more -
Leveraging Public Health Emergency Informatics during the Fungal Infections Outbreak, Tennessee - 2012
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Late in September 2012, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) identified a cluster of fungal infections following epidural injection of methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) from a single compounding pharmacy. This presented a public health imperative… read more