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  • Disease surveillance using school absenteeism data in rural Cambodia

    Content Type: Abstract

    Previous studies in developed countries showed school absenteeism data can serve as a proxy for monitoring infectious disease activities and facilitates early community outbreak detection. However, absenteeism patterns may differ in developing… read more
    … by short message service (SMS) or direct communication by phone to the central office of The Cambodian Children’s … Data quality was monitored by occasional onsite school visits by the investigators. A total of 430 students (47.4% …
  • Odisha State’s Malaria Reduction Success – Role of Information for Action

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presentation identifies the Odisha State in eastern coastal India as a region in the country and world with exceptionally high rates of malaria infection. Odisha, which represents 3% of India’s population was… read more
    … CAMPS Inaccessible villages / hamlets having infrequent visit of ASHA Accessible villages/hamlets getting …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & Interpretation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … suggest (admitted, discharged)? Are there a number of visits with similar presentation times? And do these … Project Manager Infectious Disease Surveillance Section Phone: (603) 271-7366 Email: David.S wenson@dhhs.nh.gov * …
  • Malaria: A New Model for Disease Eradication

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Defines the current state of impact of malaria. positioning the disease as leading cause of death by disease worldwide. In last 12 years, seven million lives have been saved with a reduction of 60% in fatalities.… read more
    … and in train depots. But with the advent of the cell phone, we have an novel, incredibly precise way to track … mobility. · By registering calls through nearest cell phone tower you can see where a phone is located, when it moves, how long it stays, and when …
  • Exploring illness prediction in type 1 diabetes mellitus pre-symptom onset

    Content Type: Abstract

    Illnesses like infections, cold, influenza and so on in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients, can compromise the daily patient administered diabetes treatment. This in turn may result in fluctuating blood glucose concentrations,… read more
    … with presence of symptoms’. To obtain this data, a Smart- phone application was developed, intended for monitoring … 3 Årsand E, Tatara N, Østengen G, Hartvigsen G. Mobile-phone- basen self-management tools for type 2 diabetesFthe …
  • Patient Management System Programmed Alert to Notify Providers of Suspected TB Cases

    Content Type: Abstract

    An increase in tuberculosis (TB) among homeless men residing in Marion County, Indiana was noticed in the summer of 2008. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) hosted screening events at homeless shelters in hopes of finding… read more
    … as part of a follow-up to a TB outbreak investigation. A phone number of a MCPHD nurse on call is provided. The … that normal methods of locating these individual such as phone or address was not available. Additionally, other …
  • Can Chief Complaints Identify Patients with Febrile Syndromes?

    Content Type: Abstract

     Syndromic surveillance systems often classify patients into syndromic categories based on emergency department (ED) chief complaints. There exists no standard set of syndromes for syndromic surveillance, and the available syndromic case… read more
    … of an outbreak (23). Near the end of a patient’s visit to a healthcare facility, detailed information about … approxi- mately 40,000 adult patients a year, and patient visit data have been stored in the Medical Archival System …
  • Use of Cell-Phones to Strengthen Malaria Surveillance-Response Systems of Bangka/Belitung, Indonesia - A proposal

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Government of Indonesia (GoI) aims to eliminate Malaria by 2030 in 4 stages (Wismarini, 2009. To reach the elimination phase High Case Incidence (HCI) areas go through a pre-elimination phase. The aim of the proposed project is to support one of… read more
    … the Bangka Belitung Province, Sumatera, by means of cell phone (CP) applications through the following activities: 1) … Malaria; elimination; surveillance-response; cell-phone applica- tion; Indonesia References 1. Olumese P. …