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  • Identifying Current Practical Analytic Challenges - the Analytic Solutions Committee

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented September 21, 2017. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Analytic Solution Committees (ASC) to ISDS members, explaining how the committee works and how it… read more
    … Community of Practice Call Tuesday, September 26, 3 - 4:30 pm ET Overdose Surveillance Committee Meeting … Analytic PH Needs, Methods Problem identification: may pertain to only one local health department, or to a … Agenda for Syndromic Surveillance http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0033354917709784 Add research priority …
  • Applications of the ESSENCE Desktop Edition for Outbreak Detection in a Resource-Limited Setting

    Content Type: Abstract

    Recent events have focused on the role of emerging and re-emerging diseases not only as a significant public health threat but also as a serious threat to the economy and security of nations. The lead time to detect and contain a novel emerging… read more
    … though when case counts are 5 or less, alert results may not be very reliable. Validity of alerts generated by … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • An exploratory analysis of the 2010 measles outbreak in Zimbabwe

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … is the mass vaccination campaign that took place between May 24 and June 2. Fig. 1B provides an example map … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Confusing Standards: Common Misconceptions about Disease Surveillance Standards

    Content Type: Abstract

    Domains go through phases of existence, and the electronic disease surveillance domain is no different. This domain has gone from an experimental phase, where initial prototyping and research tried to define what was possible, to a utility phase… read more
    … and understood in the exact same way as a second hospital may also be mistaken. Even though this is the hope of a … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Use of CDC's Epidemic Information Exchange system as a Disease Surveillance Tool

    Content Type: Abstract

    Epi-X is an internet-based secure website for the exchange of information regarding developing public health events. Reports are exchanged with state epidemiologists, state health officers, and other key public health officials. Provisional and… read more
    … despite not finding any additional cases. Investigators may become more confident that all related cases have … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Aiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission

    Content Type: Abstract

    A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read more
    … while being Canadian-born (OD 2.87, 95% CI 1.94; 4.26) and being Haitian-born (OD 3.09, 95% CI 1.99; 4.78) were … of source and secondary cases in the available data may have limited performance. However, the model can be an … tuberculosis. Respirology. 2004;9:313�9. 2. Fok A, Numata Y, Schulzer M, FitzGerald MJ. Risk factors for clustering of …
  • MBDS One Health Digital Disease Surveillance Application

    Content Type: Case Study

    The past decade has seen the rise of many new diseases, and the re-emergence of others which were thought to have been brought under control. This is the combined result of the expansion of global trade and travel, the increases in populations of… read more
    … (MBDS) COUNTRY: Thailand Email: moekooo2003@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? __x_ Human health ___ … to focus on hot spots of the diseases: the hot spots may first appear in areas where there is no sufficient …
  • Developing a Transdiciplinary Database Template for Operationalization of One Health Surveillance of Japanese Encephalitis and Other Vector Borne Diseases in India

    Content Type: Case Study

    Vector borne diseases like Japanese Encephalitis (JE) result from the convergence of multiple factors, including, but not limited to, human, animal, environmental, and economic and social determinants. Thus, to combat these problems, it is essential… read more
    … more accurate over time by including parameters that may have been missed in the initial stages. Finally, a …