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Association between Influenza-like Illnesses and Social Determinants of Health by Census Tract in Houston/Harris County
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The Houston Department of Health Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) monitors emergency departments (ED) chief complaints across the Houston metropolitan area, Harris County, and the surrounding jurisdictions by Real-time Outbreak… read more -
Automated Real-Time Surveillance Using Health Indicator Data Received at Different Time Intervals
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center have developed a hybrid processing engine that alerts monitors when a severe health condition exists based on corroboration among several sources of data.… read more -
Automating BioSense 2.0 Locker Processing for Local Program-Specific Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance can provide early warning of potential public health emergencies and acute health events in a population. The sharing and aggregation of syndromic data among jurisdictions can provide more comprehensive situational awareness… read more -
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Modeling of Time Series of Local Telephone Triage Data for Syndromic Surveillance
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National telephone health advice service data have been investigated as a source for syndromic surveillance of influenza-like illness and gastroenteritis . Providing a high level of coverage, the system might serve as an early outbreak detection… read more -
Best Practices for Implementing Electronic Disease Surveillance Systems in Resources-constrained Settings
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Developing countries bear the highest burden of infectious diseases, and therefore play a key role in the detection of emerging disease threats. The ability of these countries to detect such events allows an adequate response preventing its spread… read more -
Non-Parametric Scan Statistics for Disease Outbreak Detection on Twitter
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Disease outbreak detection based on traditional surveillance datasets, such as disease cases reported from hospitals, is potentially limited in that the collection of clinic information is costly and time consuming. However, social media provides… read more -
Notifications of Public Health Events under the International Health Regulations _ 5 Year U.S. Experience
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All WHO member states are signatories of the IHR (1) to improve global health security. Objectives are to improve countries' capacities to detect, notify and respond to PHEICs. Rapid and transparent information sharing are critical for global… read more -
Novel and Nontraditional Data Streams: Where Do They Fit into Biosurveillance Action?
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Public health surveillance relies on multiple systems and methodologies for data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Each component provides only part of the picture, such as detection of possible outbreaks or events of concern; geographic… read more