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Facilitating the Use of Epidemiological Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance
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Epidemiological modeling for infectious disease is useful for disease management and routine implementation needs to be facilitated through better description of models in an operational context. A standardized model characterization process that… read more -
A Value-Driven Framework For The Evaluation Of Biosurveillance Systems
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Evaluation and strengthening of biosurveillance systems is acomplex process that involves sequential decision steps, numerous stakeholders, and requires accommodating multiple and conflicting objectives. Biosurveillance evaluation, the initiating… read more -
Activity of Natural Tularemia Foci in West Ukraine
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Annually sporadic cases of tularemia in humans are registered in Ukraine and new enzootic areas are found. Monitoring of tularemia natural foci is important given the potential significant financial losses in case of tularemia outbreaks and taken… read more -
Fact Sheet: Declared States of Emergency - Opioid Crisis
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High rates of morbidity and mortality among Americans related to opioid use constitute a public health epidemic, leading multiple jurisdictions to declare formal states of emergency or public health emergency. Declaring a state of emergency grants… read more -
Wisconsin's Novel Approach to Creating a Health Outcomes Opioid Surveillance System
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Objective Wisconsin is leading the way in novel approaches monitoring health outcomes for opioid-related adverse events. This panel will share innovative public health informatics methods that harness various data sources (e.g… read more -
Pregnant women with suspected Zika virus infection: A claims data analysis
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Zika virus disease and Zika virus congenital infection are nationally notifiable conditions that became prominent recently as a growing number of travel-associated infections have been identified in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control… read more -
Enhanced Aedes spp. surveillance across jurisdictions in Arizona’s border region
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As part of a statewide effort to enhance surveillance for Aedes spp.mosquitoes the Office of Border Health (OBH) took the lead inproviding technical assistance on surveillance in counties bordering Mexico. In 2016, OBH sought ways to enhance… read more -
An Empirical Comparison of Spatial Scan Statistics for Outbreak Detection
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We present a systematic empirical comparison of five recently proposed expectation-based scan statistics, in order to determine which methods are most successful for which spatial disease surveillance tasks.