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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 -
Early Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number Using Minimal Outbreak Data
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The basic reproduction number represents the number of secondary infections expected to be caused by an infectious individual introduced into an entirely susceptible population. It is a fundamental measure used to characterize infectious disease… read more -
Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Lagos, Nigeria; 2014: an Epidemiological Investigation
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West Africa recently experienced the most persistent epidemic of EVD recorded in history. The reported morbidity and mortality of the highly virulent, emerging zoonotic filovirus infection is far larger than all previous epidemics combined. Its… read more -
Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance and Response Preparedness in Northern Ghana
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The recent Ebola outbreak has been described as unprecedented and its public health impact in terms of morbidity, mortality and coverage has been far greater than previously experienced. This outbreak has revealed many weaknesses and inadequacies… read more -
ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver Metropolitan Area of Colorado
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Assessing health disparities and access to healthcare has been an important issue for emergency preparedness and response efforts in the Denver metropolitan area. There have been several high profile MJ-related illness outbreaks in the US over the… read more