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Environmental Scan of the US States’ and Other Countries’ Notifiable Disease Provisional Data Online Display: Results and Recommendations
Content Type: Abstract
The NNDSS is the public health surveillance system that enables all levels of public health (local, state, territorial, and federal) to monitor the occurrence and spread of the diseases and conditions that the Council of State and Territorial… read more -
Establishing a Pilot Surveillance System for Venous Thromboembolism
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The U.S. Surgeon General's 2008 Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) raised the importance of conducting surveillance for VTE. VTE comprises PE and DVT and collectively is responsible for estimated 350,000… read more -
Estimation of Basic Reproduction Number of Enterovirus 71, Coxsackievirus A6 and A16 in Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Outbreaks in Singapore
Content Type: Abstract
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common childhood viral infection, characterised by a brief febrile illness, vesicular rashes on the hands and feet and mouth ulcers. HFMD is endemic in Singapore, with more than 50% of cases occurring in… read more -
Evaluating a Seasonal ARIMA Model for Event Detection in New York City
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ARIMA models use past values (autoregressive terms) and past forecasting errors (moving average terms) to generate future forecasts, making it a potential candidate method for modeling citywide time series of syndromic data [1]. While past research… read more -
Improving Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening Biosurveillance Systems for Enhanced Situational Awareness
Content Type: Report
This report is designed to aid state, territorial, tribal, and local public health leaders as they improve their capacity to achieve situational awareness during a public health emergency. We intend this report to serve as a concise reference work… read more -
Primer: Emergency Legal Preparedness - Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Content Type: References
This Primer, published by the Network for Public Health Law on Friday, September 8, 2017, provides a visual snapshot and a timeline on state and federal emergency declarations in response to Hurricane Harvey and Irma. On August… read more -
Incorporating Wisconsin Syndromic Data in ILI Surveillance
Content Type: Success Stories
The 2017-2018 influenza season was the first to be classified as "high severity" across all age groups since 2003.1 Influenza-like illness (ILI) peaked at 7.5%, the highest since the 2009 pandemic.1 It was also the longest season in recent history,… read more -
ESSENCE II and the Framework for Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Journal Article
In response to the threat of biologic terrorism and the resurgence of virulent forms of infectious diseases, technologic advances are being applied to disease surveillance. Syndromic surveillance systems have emerged to capture and analyze health-… read more