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Leveraging City Data to Understand the Opioid Epidemic in Philadelphia
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Philadelphia is in the midst of a drug epidemic that killed 702 Philadelphians in 2015, 907 in 2016, and is on trajectory to kill 1,200 in 2017. Opioids are involved in the majority of fatal overdoses, contributing to 80% of overdose deaths in 2016… read more -
Spatial temporal cluster analysis to enhance awareness of disease re-emergence on a global scale
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The re-emergence of an infectious disease is dependent on social, political, behavioral, and disease-specific factors. Global disease surveillance is a requisite of early detection that facilitates coordinated interventions to these events. Novel… read more -
Morbidity surveillance and treatment of MDR-TB with the support of NGOs in Ukraine
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The global strategy for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) epidemic "End TB" has been implemented in the world since 2016. Its main goal is to reduce the 2015 TB incidence rate by 90% and 2015 TB mortality rate by 95% by 2035. In Ukraine, in 2016, the… read more -
Self-Reported Selected Zoonotic Diseases among Animal Handlers in Ahmedabad City
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The usual mechanism of disease or infection transmission from vertebrate animals to humans and vice-versa is classified as zoonosis. Globally out of all microbial pathogenic disease, 61% are zoonotic with 13% species are regarded as emerging or… read more -
Updates to the Implementation Guide for Syndromic Surveillance
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In 2011, the CDC released the PHIN Implementation Guide (IG) for Syndromic Surveillance v.1 under the Public Health Information Network. In the intervening years, new technological advancements, EHR capabilities as well as epidemiological and… read more -
Experience of GIS Technology Application in the Surveillance of Tick-Borne Infections
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The epidemiological situation of natural foci of tick-borne infections (TBI) in Ukraine, as well as globally, is characterized by significant activation of processes due to global climate change, growing human-induced factor and shortcomings in the… read more -
HL7 balloting process for the Implementation Guide for Syndromic Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance seeks to systematically leverage health-related data in near "real-time" to understand the health of communities at the local, state, and federal level. The product of this process provides statistical insight on disease… read more -
Nonparametric Models for Identifying Gaps in Message Feeds
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Timely and accurate syndromic surveillance depends on continuous data feeds from healthcare facilities. Typical outlier detection methodologies in syndromic surveillance compare predictions of counts for an interval to observed event counts, either… read more