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Notifiable Disease Reporting among Physicians Practicing in Grenada
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Despite the significance of disease reporting to any health system, Grenada like most countries struggle with underreporting of notifiable diseases by physicians. In order to improve the national disease surveillance system in Grenada, it is… read more -
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Quality Workgroup
Content Type: Report
To provide community input on data quality issues and enhance data quality through sharing and testing of scripts. Summary of activities: The Data Quality workgroup has worked to address Data Quality issues through the… read more -
Novel Analysis and Visualization of Chemical Events for Public Health Surveillance
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), on behalf the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA; project number CB10190), hosts an annual intern- based web app development contest. Previous competitions have focused on mobile biosurveillance… read more -
Performance of Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance in Bauchi State, Nigeria, 2016
Content Type: Abstract
Poliomyelitis a disease targeted for eradication since 1988 still pose public health challenge. The Eastern Mediterranean and African Regions out of the six World Health Organization (WHO) Regions are yet to be certified polio free. The… read more -
Poison Control Center Data in the NC DETECT Syndromic Surveillance System.
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CPC provides the 24/7/365 poison hotline for the entire state of North Carolina and currently handles approximately 80,000 calls per year. CPC consultation services that assist callers with poison exposure, diagnosis, optimal patient management,… read more -
Post-vaccination rabies sero-survey in Georgia, 2015
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Rabies is endemic in Georgia with up to 100 confirmed cases in animals per year. There is an estimated 350,000 domestic and stray dogs/cats in Georgia. The prophylactic vaccination of domestic animals against rabies was reestablished in Georgia in… read more -
New challenges in tobacco surveillance: monitoring the prevalence of electronic cigarettes and hookah use in the United States
Content Type: Webinar
Since the 1990s tobacco control strategies --- at least in the United States and some developed countries --- have had considerable success in reducing the number of new smokers and encouraging existing smokers to quit through the creation of a… read more -
Development and pilot study road traffic injury surveillance, Kaduna Nigeria
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Road Traffic Injury is common cause of unintentional injury globally and Low and middle income countries account for 90%of 1.3 million Road Traffic Injury (RTI) deaths. In Africa region, Nigeria accounts for 25% of RTI mortality but has no… read more