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African One Health e-Surveillance Initiative
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can enhance public health surveillance (PHS) by facilitating the digital exchange of information. Electronic surveillance (e-Surveillance) is the use of electronic systems to empower the digitization of… read more -
Alcohol-Related ED Visits and Ohio State Football: Putting the O-H in ETOH
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According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), binge drinking causes over half of the 88,000 excessive alcohol use deaths and costs approximately $149 billion dollars annually in the United States. Additionally, excessive alcohol use can… read more -
Alert-Enabled Application Integrating Data Quality Monitoring for Multiple Sources
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Data sets from disparate sources widely vary in the number and type of factors which most hamper integrity and timeliness of the data. To maintain high quality data, data sets must be regularly assessed, particularly for those vulnerabilities that… read more -
Real-time surveillance for chronic conditions in Massachusetts using EHR data
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Public health agencies and researchers have traditionally relied on the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and similar tools for surveillance of non-reportable conditions. These tools are valuable but the data are delayed by more… read more -
Regional study of anthrax foci
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Anthrax is endemic in the South Caucasus region. There is a lack of understanding of the regional epidemiology of the causative pathogen, Bacillus anthracis, and the trans-boundary factors related to its persistence. Objective… read more -
Respiratory and circulatory deaths attributable to influenza A & B
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Assigning causes of deaths to seasonal infectious diseases is difficult in part due to laboratory testing prior to death being uncommon. Since influenza (and other common respiratory pathogens) are therefore notoriously underreported as a (… read more -
Monitoring Media Content About Vaccines in the United States: Data from the Vaccine Sentimeter
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The success of public health campaigns in decreasing or eliminating the burden of vaccine-preventable diseases can be undermined by media content influencing vaccine hesitancy in the population. A tool for tracking and describing the ever-growing… read more -
Prescription Opioid Abuse: Gleaning insights from hospital and vital records data
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There is a resurgence in the need to evaluate the economic burden of prescription drug hospitalizations in the United States. We used the Wisconsin 2014 Hospital Discharge data to examine opioid related hospitalization incidence and costs. Fentanyl… read more