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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
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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 …