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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 -
Minnesota e-Health Data Repositories: Assessing the Status, Readiness & Opportunities to Support Population Health
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Health care reform and the use of electronic health record systems is dramatically changing the health care landscape creating both challenges and opportunities for public health. High adoption of health information technology among Minnesota’s… read more -
Modernization of Epi Surveillance in Kazakhstan: Transition to Risk Assessment and Real-Time Monitoring Based on Situational Center
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The sanitary-epidemiological monitoring system in Kazakhstan is passive and statistical in nature. Due to the modern threats, activation and emergence of new and recurring diseases (corona virus, Ebola, etc.) it is vital to transition from current… read more -
Situational Awareness of Childhood Immunization in Kenya
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Despite the steady increase in immunization coverage in Kenya, the most recent Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) shows that there is still immunization inequality across the country. Nationally, 2 out of every 3 (66.67%) children has been… read more -
Situational Awareness of Health Events Using Social Media and the SMART Dashboard
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Numerous methods using social media for syndromic surveillance and disease tracking have been developed. Many websites use Twitter and other social media to track specific diseases or syndromes.1 Many are intended for public use and the extent… read more -
Social Media Analytics for Post-Disasters Disease Detection in the Philippines
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Previous research identifies social media as an informal source of near-real time health data that may add value to disease surveillance systems by providing broader access to health data across hard-toreach populations. This indirect health… read more -
The Public Health Community Platform: Shared Resources For Enterprise Solutions
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Public health is at a precipice of increasing demand for the consumption and analysis of large amounts of disparate data, the centralization of local and state IT offices, and the compartmentalization of programmatic technology solutions. Public… read more -
The Threat of Ebola Virus Disease: A Call to Integrate all Sectors in Surveillance Activities in Ghana
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Disease surveillance particularly surveillance for communicable diseases is essential in identifying cases and preventing the occurrence of an outbreak. Surveillance can also contribute to reducing the size of an outbreak. In order to achieve these… read more