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Cysticercosis associated epilepsy prevention and control
Content Type: Case Study
Cysticercosis is a frequent health problem in developing countries. The disease is due to infection by Taenia solium larvae and is predominant in areas where pigs and humans cohabite. Inappropriate breeding conditions and poor hygiene especially… read more… ___ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration __x_ Training and Resources ___x Technologies and Methodologies … -
Implementation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Using a General Practitioner's House Calls Network
Content Type: Abstract
Recent health events in France, such as the dramatic excess of mortality occurred during the 2003 heat wave showed the need for a better provision of information to health authorities. A new syndromic surveillance system based on the… read more… (Cire),Bordeaux, France (2) French Field Epidemiology Training Programme (PROFET), InVS, ENSP, France (3) SOS … -
Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more… Haas, Waller, Schwartz, Mostafa Machine Learning • Train system to identify patterns • Requires gold standard training set • Syndromic surveillance- gold standard • … -
Digital Epidemiology: designing machine learning approaches to combine Internet-based data sources to monitor and forecast disease activity in multiple locations and spatial resolutions
Content Type: Webinar
Presented May 24, 2018. Mauricio Santillana, MS, PhD describes machine learning methodologies that leverage Internet-based information from search engines, twitter microblogs, crowd-sourced disease surveillance systems, electronic… read more… (Massachusetts and Boston) Highlights: (a) dynamic-moving training window, (b) automatic feature selection, (c) … Jon Bickel, and Ben Reis Split data for modeling Training/Fitting Testing In collaboration with: Sam Tideman, … -
Comparison of 2005-2007 Influenza-Like Illness Observed from Emergency Department Visits in Miami-Dade County
Content Type: Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the 2005- 2006 and 2006-2007 Influenza seasons using Influenza-like illness (ILI) data received from Emergency Departments in Miami-Dade County.… MDCHD has implemented a syndromic surveillance system (ESSENCE) to monitor ILI trends from data received from … -
Cholera v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: Created by the CDC National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for use with ED data as part of the rapid reportables project, which seeks to create queries for all National Notifiable Diseases defined by the… read more… terms. These terms were formatted for querying in ESSENCE. Text analysis was conducted on the initial query to … New or Revised Definition: New Definition Date Added to ESSENCE: July 2024 Definition Description: Designed to … -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing
Content Type: Abstract
In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more… for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Each state desired to view the new shared data … -
Utilization of Public Health Surveillance Data for Early Detection of Drinking Water Contamination
Content Type: Abstract
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has developed a prototype contamination warning system (CWS) for drinking water in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9 (HSPD9). The goal of HSPD9 and the CWS is to… read more… health departments. The EPA is working with RODS and ESSENCE to enhance capabilities to detect a drinking water …