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Unplanned School Closures in the United States: Evaluation of Economic and Social Costs and Consequences for Students’ Families
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends implementing early targeted school closures as one of the front-line interventions to slow progression of a severe influenza pandemic before appropriate vaccine becomes available.… read moreUse of Administrative Health Care Data for Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance
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Surveillance for STD in the United States (US) relies primarily on case reports from clinicians and laboratories and sentinel surveillance; however, nationwide reporting is not required for viral STD and clinical sequelae of STD. … read moreModels for Forecasting Asthma Exacerbations in Urban Environments
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Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance: Models for Forecasting Asthma Exacerbations in Urban Environments consultancy held March 30-31, 2016 at the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC). … read moreUse of Syndromic Data for Enhanced Surveillance: MERS Like-Syndrome
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) BioSense system receives near real-time health care utilization data from number of sources, including DoD and VA outpatient facilities, and nonfederal hospital EDs in the US to support all-hazards… read moreUser-Customizable Health Pattern Detector Framework: Twitter Analysis Example
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Early detection of a disease outbreak using pre-diagnostic textual data is available in biosurveillance systems with the integration of data such as chief complaints. Social media has been identified as an additional pre-diagnostic data source of… read moreUsing a Syndromic Surveillance System to Evaluate the Impact of a Change in Alcohol Law
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In November 2011, Washington State voters passed Initiative 1183 (I-1183) which closed state-owned and contracted liquor stores and opened the market for “hard liquor” sales in the private sector. The change in law was implemented on June 1, 2012.… read moreUsing Ambulatory Syndromic Surveillance Data for Chronic Disease: A BMI Case Study
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Syndromic surveillance is one of the meaningful use public health menu set objectives for eligible professionals. The value of this data for syndromic surveillance as an adjunct to the more widely adopted emergency department registrations has not… read moreUsing an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System to Assess the Impact of Cyclone Bejisa, Reunion Island
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On January 2, 2014 the cyclone Bejisa struck Reunion Island. This storm of Category 3 (Saffir–Simpson scale) disturbed electricity supply and drinking water systems. Floods, roof destructions and the threat of landslide led to the evacuation of… read more