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Malaria risk assessment through Remote Sensing and MultiCriteria Evaluation in Madagascar
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Malaria remains a major public health problem in Madagascar. Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) is the adopted strategy for malaria control in the CHs and Fringe regions of Madagascar. Remotely sensed data analysis combined with Multi-Criteria… read more… 10.1016/0022-2496(77)90033-5. *Anthonio Rakotoarison E-mail: anthonio@pasteur.mg … -
Optimal sequential management decisions for influenza outbreaks
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Management policies for influenza outbreaks balance the expected morbidity and mortality costs versus the cost of intervention policies under outbreak parameter uncertainty. Previous approaches have not updated parameter estimates as data arrives… read more… of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA E-mail: niemi@pstat.ucsb.edu Objective This abstract … -
Impact of including physician’s prescribing directions on calculations of medication possession ratios
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Medication adherence studies typically use pharmacy-dispensing data to infer drug exposures. These studies often require calculations reflecting the intensity and duration of drug exposure. The typical approach to estimating duration of drug… read more… Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: candace.hayden@hsc.utah.edu Introduction Medication … -
Maryland ESSENCE expansion to incorporate prescription medication data
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Maryland has a powerful syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE, which is used for the early detection of disease outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, and public health emergencies. ESSENCE incorporates traditional and nontraditional health… read more… of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD, USA E-mail: saslam@dhmh.state.md.us Objective The purpose of this … -
BioSINE: an intuitive visualization tool to enhance collaboration between research and practice in disease surveillance
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Funded by the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, we developed the BioSINE toolset to provide visualization and collaboration capabilities to improve the accessibility and utility of health surveillance… read more… MA, USA; and 2Northrop Grumman Corp., Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: ppicciano@aptima.com Objective BioSINE strives to … -
Creating a fast and flexible syndromic surveillance reporting system
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Syndromic surveillance systems significantly enhance the ability of Public Health Units to identify, quantify, and respond to disease outbreaks. Existing systems provide excellent classification, identification, and alerting functions,… read more… USA; and 5AMITA Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada E-mail: jason.morin@nrc.gc.ca Objective The objective of this … -
Evaluation of the NATO Disease Surveillance System in Kosovo in 2010
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The 2010 NATO DSS experiment was the second deployment of the French ‘Alerte et Surveillance en Temps Re´el’ (ASTER) system within a multinational armed task force in real operational conditions. This experiment was scheduled within the ASTER… read more… I, Preventive Medicine Department, Kiel, Germany E-mail: jb.meynard@wanadoo.fr Objective The new NATO Disease … -
Enhance public health data capacity through statewide health information exchange of immunization records
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Utah Statewide Immunization Information System (USIIS) is the state immunization registry. It is connected to about 700 organizations, including 100% public health clinics, 60% of private providers, many schools, daycares, pharmacies… read more… Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: wxu@utah.gov Objective The goal of the immunization …