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Application and Visualization of Twitter Data for Disease Surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
The panelists will present their current technical research using Twitter data for disease surveillance. Presentation topics may include filtering and processing of tweets, as well as the analysis and presentation of findings for surveillance… read more… disease surveillance b) health behavior assessment Email: salathe@psu.edu Twitter: @marcelsalathe, … -
Directionally Sensitive Multivariate Statistical Process Control Procedures with Application to Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Current syndromic surveillance systems run multiple simultaneous univariate procedures, each focused on detecting an outbreak in a single data stream. Multivariate procedures have the potential to better detect some types of outbreaks, but most of… read more… with the CDC's aggregate data on “percentage of visits for influenza-line illness reported by sentinel … to moderate in the United States.” The percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaked in February–March … was characterized as “mild,” with the percentage of visits in the South Atlantic region peaking in … -
Prioritization: a difficult word, and technique, to master. A review of prioritization approaches to multi-dimensional problems in health settings
Content Type: Webinar
In a context of finite resources, multiple needs and growing demands of organizational accountability, there has been an increase in the number of multi-dimensional prioritization exercises (of diseases, interventions, etc) in the health arena. Not… read more… you for your attention! Contact: Gilberto Montibeller Email: g.montibeller@lse.ac.uk Address: Department of … -
Evaluation of Microbiology Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as a Potential Data Source for Early Outbreak Detection
Content Type: Abstract
Animals continue to be recognized as a potential source of surveillance data for detecting emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism preparedness, pandemic influenza preparedness, and detection of other zoonotic diseases. Detection of disease… read more… rigorous surveillance efforts, increased veter- inary visits in reaction to a public service campaign, or other … -
Translational Research for Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
Presented January 28, 2008 The following presentation was given as part of the Integrated Surveillance Seminar Series from the National Center for Public Health Informatics and provides an overview of public health informatics… read more… Algorithms Local Surveillance System Users Encrypted E-Mail Encrypted Transfer Secure FTP Site Hosp. Dir. D at a S … -
Using quad trees to generate grid points for applications in geographic disease surveillance
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In this study, we compare two methods of generating grid points to enable efficient geographic cluster detection when the original geographical data are prohibitively numerous. One method generates uniform grid points, and the other employs quad… read more… Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5J 1S6 (e-mail: nwy@ualberta.ca). 1 Advances in Disease Surveillance … -
Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more… sur- veillance parameters such as the date of health care visits, the Zip code or country of residence are considered …