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Long-Term Asthma Trend Monitoring in New York City: A Mixed Model Approach
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Over the last decade, the application of syndromic surveillance systems has expanded beyond early event detection to include longterm disease trend monitoring. However, statistical methods employed for analyzing syndromic data tend to focus on early… read moreMalaria Trends in Six Outpatient Sites in Uganda, 2008 - 2011
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Over the past five years, efforts to control malaria have been intensified in Uganda (1). With the intensification of these efforts, accurate and timely data are needed to monitor impact of the interventions and guide malaria control program… read moreMental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011
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Understanding the relationship between mental illness and medical comorbidity is an important aspect of public health surveillance. In 2004, an estimated one fourth of the US adults reported having a mental illness in the previous year (1). Studies… read moreMining Surveillance Data: Does Radiation Treatment of Prostate Cancer Cause Rectal Cancer?
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Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common invasive cancer diagnosed among US men. The majority of PCs are organ-confined at diagnosis making them candidates for treatment using RAD, SURG, or other protocols. Several studies have provided preliminary… read moreExpanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance held its eleventh annual conference in San Diego on December 4th and 5th, 2012, under the theme Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance. During these two… read moreIncorporation of School Absenteeism Data into the Maryland Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE)
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Syndromic surveillance offers the potential for earlier detection of bioterrorism, outbreaks, and other public health emergencies than traditional disease surveillance. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) Office of… read moreIncreasing Mild Enterovirus Cases Provides An Important Signal of Up-coming Trends in Elevating Severe Enterovirus Cases
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In July 2012, the 54 children infected with enterovirus-71(EV71) were died in Cambodia. The media called it as mystery illness and made Asian parents worried. In fact, the severe epidemics of enterovirus occurred frequently in Asia, including… read moreCan Novel Flu Surveillance Be Conducted With Limited Resources?
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The past decade has witnessed rapid development and implementation of numerous syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems to supplement traditional laboratory testing to identify the presence of novel influenza strains and track the impact on… read more