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Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?
Content Type: Abstract
School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more… Egger et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 26 and threshold levels in absenteeism … Health Threats Journal JR Egger et al. 2011, 4:s78 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 27 … -
Collaborative development of use cases for geospatially enabling a health information exchange
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Given the clear relationship between spatial contexts and health, the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics (ICEPHI) aims to serve both the needs of public health researchers and practitioners by… read more… Comer et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 13 allowing spatially aware research and … Health Threats Journal KF Comer et al. 2011, 4:s72 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 14 … -
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center (VA IOC): collaborations for surveillance, analysis, and prediction for infectious disease threat preparedness—pilot review of dengue occurrence
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Under leadership of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness has established the Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center, with the goal of enhancing integration and analysis of data, and… read more… Wallace et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 97 patient population, with the intent … Health Threats Journal KS Wallace et al. 2011, 4:s155 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 98 … -
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center (VA IOC): collaborations for surveillance, analysis, and prediction for infectious disease threat preparedness—pilot review of dengue occurrence
Content Type: Abstract
Under leadership of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness has established the Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center, with the goal of enhancing integration and analysis of data, and… read more… Wallace et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 97 patient population, with the intent … Health Threats Journal KS Wallace et al. 2011, 4:s155 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 98 … -
Population-based surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections among high school football and wrestling participants—Nebraska, 2008–2010
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MRSA, which had been known primarily as a cause of healthcare-associated infections, increasingly has been recognized as a cause of skin infections among persons of all ages who have little or no contact with healthcare settings. Such infections are… read more… TJ Safranek.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 16 Conclusions Estimated incidence of … Threats Journal BF Buss and TJ Safranek. 2011, 4:s122 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 17 … -
A comparison of syndromic surveillance chief complaint data and discharge data in a pediatric hospital system during 2009 H1N1
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The Syndromic Surveillance Program (SSP) of the Acute Disease Epidemiology Section of the Georgia Division of Public Health, provides electronic influenza- like- illness (ILI) data to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention… read more… D Peace et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 87 still remains difficult to accurately … Health Threats Journal D Peace et al. 2011, 4:s151 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 88 … -
Monitoring the Transfer of Patients with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from Tribal Lands to Facilities in Maricopa County, Arizona
Content Type: Success Stories
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), a bacterial tick-borne rickettsial illness, initially causes nonspecific symptoms (e.g., fever, rash, nausea, and vomiting). In 2003, RMSF was identified on tribal lands in Arizona where the brown dog tick… read more -
in silico Surveillance: Informing Surveillance with Simulation
Content Type: Webinar
Simulations of infectious disease spread have increasingly been used to inform public policy for planning and response to outbreaks. As these techniques have increased in sophistication a wider array of uses becomes appropriate. In particular,… read more… Expert Knowledge Behavior Surveys Anecdotal Data http://www.pygame.org/ project-Cellular +Automata-662-.html !19 … Suppl 5:S42–8. doi:10.1097/PHH.0b013e31829398eb. http://www.pygame.org/project-Cellular+Automata-662-.html Synthetic … Problem: Forecasting Future Depends on Now !37 http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2013-2014/bigpi44.htm …