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Cause-Specific School Absenteeism Monitoring Identifies Community Influenza Outbreaks
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Transmission and amplification of influenza within schools has been purported as a driving mechanism for subsequent outbreaks in surrounding communities. However, the number of studies assessing the utility of monitoring school absenteeism as an… read more -
Automated Processing of Electronic Data for Disease Surveillance
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National initiatives, such as Meaningful Use, are automating the detection and reporting of reportable disease events to public health, which has led to more complete, timely, and accurate public health surveillance data. However, electronic… read more -
Identifying Sociomarkers of Pediatric Asthma Patients at Risk of Hospital Revisiting
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A socio-marker is a measurable indicator of social conditions where a patient is embedded in and exposed to, being analogous with a biomarker indicating the severity or presence of some disease state. Social factors are one of the most clinical… read more -
Tracking drug-related overdoses at the local level: Using Syndromic Surveillance in the CO-NCR
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The United States is in the midst of a drug crisis; drug-related overdoses are the leading cause of unintentional death in the country. In Colorado the rate of fatal drug overdose increased 68% from 2002-2014 (9.7 deaths per 100,000 to 16.3 per 100,… read more -
Near Real-time Surveillance of Disease during 2016-17 Influenza Season in the U.S.
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Public health agencies worldwide all enjoy the same missionâproviding healthcare warnings, guidance, and support to the public and healthcare professionals they represent. A critical element in achieving this mission is accessing timely and… read more -
Data-Driven Computational Model to Assess the Risk of Epidemics in Global Mass Gatherings
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Global Mass gatherings (MGs) such as Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, and Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah), attract millions of people from different countries. The gathering of a large population in a proximity facilitates transmission of… read more -
Modelling the transmission and control strategies of varicella in Shenzhen
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Varicella (chickenpox) is a highly transmissible childhood disease. Between 2010 and 2015,it displayed two epidemic waves annually among school populations in Shenzhen, China. However, their transmission dynamics remain unclear and there is no… read more -
Profile: Karachi Health and Demographic Surveillance System of Pakistan (KHDSS)
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The Karachi Health and Demographic Surveillance System was set up in year 2003 by the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health of the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, in four peri-urban low socioeconomic communities of Karachi and covers an… read more