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Tiny Footprints Embedded on Grieving Mother's Heart: Stillbirths in the Health and Demographic Surveillance System
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Stillbirth is an unfortunate event in a woman life which remains uncounted in developing countries, thus, seldom caught attention until recently. Among 3.2 million stillbirths globally, 98% occurs in LMICs with majority in South Asia, and 75% of… read more -
The Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact
Content Type: Report
Released October 2017. Prepared by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Health Matters Initiative. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXCERPT While prescription opioids serve an invaluable role for the… read more -
Strengthening Community Surveillance of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone
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Communities and sections that are consistently underreporting both illness and death pose a significant risk to surveillance and their efficacy is dependent upon the reporting of community structures such as government structures (primary health… read more -
Surveillance of Anthrax Foci Across Pipeline Constructions in Georgia, 2003-2014
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Anthrax is a widely distributed endemic infection in Georgia, affecting nearly the entire country. Many of the human cases that are annually registered are agriculturally acquired. Anthrax remains a public health risk due to active, resistant soil… read more -
Surveillance Systems that Include Deprivation Indices & Social Determinants of Health
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In 2012, Canada and other World Health Organization Member States endorsed the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, a global commitment to address health inequities by acting on the social, economic, environmental, and other… read more -
Use of Peripheral Health Units in Low-Transmission Ebola Virus Disease Surveillance
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Existing EVD surveillance strategies in Sierra Leone use a centralized live alert system to refer suspect cases from the community to Ebola treatment centers. As EVD case burden declined in Port Loko District, so did the number of reported alerts.… read more -
Using Bayesian Networks to Assist Decision-Making in Syndromic Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance systems often produce large numbers of detections due to excess activity (alarms) in their indicators. Few alarms are classified as alerts (public health events that may require a response). Decision-making in syndromic… read more