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Improvement in Loss to Follow-up of Newborn Hearing Screening: A lesson from Louisiana Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program
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Newborns who fail initial hearing screening are encouraged to follow up to get further tests to confirm diagnosis of hearing loss. Loss to follow-up of hearing screening is defined as a newborn who fails the initial hearing test before hospital… read more -
Improving Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening Biosurveillance Systems for Enhanced Situational Awareness
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In emergencies, public health agencies must be able to respond to health threats that can affect entire communities. Agency leaders need to achieve situational awareness through the development of flexible, timely, and accurate electronic… read more -
Increased Uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Services among Older Men Following Mobile Technology Demand Creation in Shinyanga and Simiyu, Tanzania
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In 2007, the United Nations recommended provision of VMMC in settings with high HIV prevalence and low rates of male circumcision (MC). This recommendation was based on randomized studies in Africa, which demonstrated that MMC reduces HIV… read more -
Increasing Outbreak Detection Power by Data Transformations
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Syndromic surveillance involves the analysis of time series of health indicators to identify changes in disease patterns. To this end, statistical modeling is used to reduce systematic data variation. Still, there is variation that cannot be… read more -
Influenza Sentinel Surveillance in Lagos State Nigeria, 2009 _ 2011
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Outbreaks of Avian influenza (AI) in poultry were first reported in Nigeria in 2006 (1). The only human case was reported in 2007 (1). The epizootics of AI among poultry and wild birds and subsequent risk to human health highlighted the need to… read more -
Influenza Surveillance in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): 2012-2013 Influenza Season
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Influenza is associated with significant morbidity and mortality nationally each year and VA's large elderly population is at particular risk. VA Office of Public Health (OPH) has monitored influenza and influenza-like-illness (ILI) activity using… read more -
Informing U.S. Federal Public Health Preparation for Emerging Virus Pandemic Threats at Ports of Entry
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The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) has the responsibility to integrate, analyze, and share the nationÃs biosurveillance information provided from capabilities distributed across the public and private sectors. The integration of… read more -
Innovations in Population Health Surveillance Using Electronic Health Record Data
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EHRs are increasingly being adopted to improve quality of care in health care systems, but they also have potential to monitor health at the population level. There has been relatively little focus on using EHRs for population health surveillance… read more