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Ten Years of Syndromic Surveillance in New Hampshire: Innovation, Experience and Outcomes
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In response to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the NH Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) engaged state and external partners in the design of an early warning surveillance system to support bioterrorism and emergency… read more… *David Swenson E-mail: swensd@comcast.net (page number not for citation … -
Linking Informatics and Cross-Programmatic Public Health Strategic Objectives
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There is national recognition of the need for cross-programmatic data and system coordination and integration for surveillance, prevention, response, and control implementation. To accomplish this public health must develop an informatics competency… read more… php?pageName�Articles_Papers. *Geraldine Johnson E-mail: gsb03@health.state.ny.us (page number not for citation … -
Use of the National Poison Data System after the 2011 Japan Radiological Incident for Surveillance of Incident-related Exposures in the United States
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NPDS is a national database of detailed information collected from each call, uploaded in near real-time, from the 57 participating regional poison centers (PCs) located across the US. NPDS is owned and operated by the American Association of Poison… read more… Keywords Japan; radiation; surveillance *Royal Law E-mail: hua1@cdc.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Use of Cell-Phones to Strengthen Malaria Surveillance-Response Systems of Bangka/Belitung, Indonesia - A proposal
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The Government of Indonesia (GoI) aims to eliminate Malaria by 2030 in 4 stages (Wismarini, 2009. To reach the elimination phase High Case Incidence (HCI) areas go through a pre-elimination phase. The aim of the proposed project is to support one of… read more… Directorate of Malaria, MoH; 2009. *Rossi Sanusi E-mail: rossi_sanusi@yahoo.com (page number not for citation … -
An exploratory analysis of the 2010 measles outbreak in Zimbabwe
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This report describes an exploratory analysis of the 2009-2010 Zimbabwe measles outbreak based on data publicly available in the World Health Organization's Zimbabwe cholera epidemiological bulletin archive. As of December 12th 2010, the outbreak… read more… package�maptools; 2011. *Jarad Niemi E-mail: niemi@iastate.edu (page number not for citation … -
Risk Factors for Norovirus Outbreaks Associated with Attack Rate and Genogroup
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Noroviruses are the single most common cause of epidemic, non-bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. NoVs cause an estimated 68-80% of gastroenteritis outbreaks in industrialized countries and possibly more in developing countries. … read more… John Kiel, Julia Sobolik Montes. *Jamie Felzer E-mail: jamie.felzer@emory.edu (page number not for citation … -
The Spatial and Temporal Anatomy of Seasonal Influenza, 1972-2007
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Seasonality has a major effect on the spatial and temporal (i.e. spatiotemporal) dynamics of natural systems and their populations (1). Although the seasonality of influenza in temperate countries is widely recognized, inter-regional spread of… read more… Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006;103:2015�20. *Bianca Malcolm E-mail: blm2115@columbia.edu (page number not for citation … -
Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service
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Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system. One way to strengthen syndromic surveillance… read more… data sources; resource-limited settings *Melissa Powell E-mail: melissa.e.powell@state.or.us (page number not for …