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Value of evidence from syndromic surveillance with delayed reporting
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Taking into account reporting delays in surveillance systems is not methodologically trivial. Consequently, most use the date of the reception of data, rather than the (often unknown) date of the health event itself. The main drawback of this… read more -
What do we know about the behavior of animal rabies in Chile through the last years?
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Rabies is a zoonotic disease caused by an RNA virus from the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. Worldwide distributed, control of rabies has been considered to be particularly amenable to a “One Health” strategy (1). In Chile, rabies was… read more -
Denver County Clostridium difficile Trends and Associated Risk Factors 2011-2013
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Clostridium difficile (CD), a gram-negative, anaerobic, sporeforming bacterium causes symptoms ranging from mild to severe diarrhea and may result in death. Approximately 75% of CDI cases have symptom onset outside of health care settings.… read more -
Classification and Capture of Work-Related Non-Fatal Injuries Through a Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance System
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Syndromic surveillance has been used by state agencies to collect real-time information on disease outbreaks but has not been used to collect data in the occupational setting. Therefore, OHS staff has begun evaluating a real-time surveillance tool… read more -
Developing the Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance (SDIDS) Platform
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Electronic data that could be used for global health surveillance are fragmented across diseases, organizations, and countries. This fragmentation frustrates efforts to analyze data and limits the amount of information available to guide disease… read more -
Development of Food Hygiene Surveillance System in Plantation Sector, Sri Lanka
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Wholesome food in adequate quantities is essential to human beings for their existence. However, diseases spread due to contaminated food are a common problem throughout the world and an important cause of reduced economic productivity. Food borne… read more -
Disease Surveillance by Private Health Providers in Nigeria: A Research Proposal
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The outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa in 2014 presented a major threat and concern across the world, spreading to two other continents (Europe and North America). Though the epidemic is on a downward trend, there is a need to… read more -
Disproportionate Emergency Room Use as an Indicator of Community Health
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Community health assessments are a foundation of public health practice and a prerequisite to achieving public health accreditation. Best practice dictates that CHAs must incorporate qualitative and quantitative data and utilize a number of… read more