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Building Electronic Disease Surveillance Capacity in the Peruvian Navy with SAGES
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In the past 15 years, public health surveillance has undergone a revolution driven by advances in information technology (IT) with vast improvements in the collection, analysis, visualization, and reporting of health data. Mobile technologies and… read more -
C. burnetii Shedding Study In Domestic Animals in Georgia
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Q fever is a zoonotic bacterial disease resulting from infection by Coxiella burnetii. Domestic ruminants (cattle, sheep, and goats) are considered the main reservoir for the pathogen, which can also infect humans. Q fever is poorly understood in… read more -
Calendar effects to forecast influenza seasonality: A case study in Milwaukee, WI
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Influenza viral infection is contentious, has a short incubation period, yet preventable if multiple barriers are employed. At some extend school holidays and travel restrictions serve as a socially accepted control measure. A study of a… read more -
Camera-based, mobile disease surveillance using Convolutional Neural Networks
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Infectious diseases present with multifarious factors requiring several efforts to detect, prevent, and break the chain of transmission. Recently, machine learning has shown to be promising for automated surveillance leading to rapid and early… read more -
Childhood home based unintentional injuries Surveillance in Punjab India
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Injury and violence are public health problems now-a-days all over the world. Over 950000 children less than 18 years of age die as a result of injuries, 95% of which occur in low and middle income countries (LMIC) including India. Unintentional… read more -
Communicating the detection capabilities of syndromic surveillance systems
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Increasingly public health decision-makers are using syndromic surveillance for real-time reassurance and situational awareness in addition to early warning1. Decision-makers using intelligence, including syndromic data, need to understand what the… read more -
Comparing Cerebral Palsy Surveillance Definition to ICD Codes and Written Diagnoses
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Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common cause of motor disability in children. CP registries often rely on administrative data such as CP diagnoses or International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes indicative of CP. However, little is known… read more -
Comparing spatio-temporal methods of non-communicable disease surveillance.
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Health surveillance is well established for infectious diseases, but less so for non-communicable diseases. When spatio-temporal methods are used, selection often appears to be driven by arbitrary criteria, rather than optimal detection capabilities… read more