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Syndromic Surveillance Pilot Project in Dongcheng District of Beijing China
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Syndromic surveillance had been implemented in Dongcheng District with a view to probing into the feasibility of establishing a syndromic surveillance system in major Chinese cities, sieving syndromic surveillance indicators… read more… 100007 Telephone: 86-10-64032562Email: qiaolei@hotmail.com Integrate Surveillance … -
Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance
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In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more… J 2011;4(Suppl 1). *Taj Azarian E-mail: tajazari@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … -
Education as a mechanism to reduce spread of brucellosis among at-risk populations in Uzbekistan
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One goal of the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the enhancement of surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union. One of the… read more… #8P. *Adkhamjon Mamatkulov E-mail: amamatku@bechtel.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … -
Hepatitis A Surveillance Evaluation in Mafraq Health Directorate, Jordan 2010
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Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is usually mild in childhood but more severe in adolescents and adults'. An estimated 1.4 million cases of HAV infection occur annually in the world. The case-fatality rate among patients of all ages is… read more… MOH, 2009. *Ghazi Sharkas E-mail: ghazisharkas@yahoo.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. … -
Using spatial analysis for estimation of the stage of HIV epidemic
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Detection of the signs of HIV epidemic transition from concentrated to generalized stage is an important issue for many countries including Ukraine. Objective and timely detection of the generalization of HIV epidemic is a significant factor for the… read more… analysis; GIS *Oleksandr Postnov E-mail: apostnovmd@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. Spatial … -
Use of Cell-Phones to Strengthen Malaria Surveillance-Response Systems of Bangka/Belitung, Indonesia - A proposal
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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… MoH; 2009. *Rossi Sanusi E-mail: rossi_sanusi@yahoo.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … -
Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service
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Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system. One way to strengthen syndromic surveillance… read more… FileMaker for managing notifiable conditions data (i.e., com- municable disease reporting); so, there were no new … -
A Zero-Inflated Poisson Based Spatial Scan Statistic
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The spatial scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff has been widely used in spatial disease surveillance and other spatial cluster detection applications. In one of its versions, such scan statistic was developed for inhomogeneous Poisson process… read more… 1992;34:1�14. *André Cançado E-mail: cancado@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. Example …