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  • Changes in the Spatial Distribution of Syphilis

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    Public health officials and epidemiologists have been attempting to eradicate syphilis for decades, but national incidence rates are again on the rise. It has been suggested that the syphilis epidemic in the US is a "rare example of unforced,… read more
    … *Sean Tolentino E-mail: seanluciotolentino@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. Syphilis …
  • Impact of training on Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in Nigeria

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    Public health surveillance (also called field epidemiology) as defined by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the ongoing systematic, collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome specific data essential to the planning ,… read more
    … September 2005. *Olawunmi Adeoye E-mail: wunmiolat@yahoo.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. Results …
  • Evaluation of a post earthquake internally displaced persons surveillance system (IDPSS) - Haiti, 2010

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    On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, killing 4230 000 persons and placing an estimated 1.5 million into internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. IDPs are at increased risk for communicable diseases resulting… read more
    … acceptability, and timeliness by providing a common con- duit for surveillance communication. Future … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 41 systems should take advantage of the … Health Threats Journal A Sprecher et al. 2011, 4:s54 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 42 …
  • Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents

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    Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more
    … Language Processing system developed for automated symp- tom extraction. Our overarching goal is to characterize the … South et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 64 unknown syndromes of interest to … Health Threats Journal BR South et al. 2011, 4:s115 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 65 …
  • A bootstrapping method to improve cohort identification

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    The research reported in this paper is part of a larger effort to achieve better signal-to-noise ratio, hence accuracy, in pharmacovigilance applications. The relatively low frequency of occurrence of adverse drug reactions leads to… read more
    … abnormal lipid panel tests and related medications (HMG-CoA reduc- tase inhibitors, intestinal cholesterol … Kandula et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 3131 with the bootstrapping algorithm … Health Threats Journal S Kandula et al. 2011, 4:s31 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 3232 …
  • Changes in Alcohol-Related Travel Behavior due to an Under 21 Ordinance

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    Alcohol abuse is one of the major leading causes of preventable mortality in the United States. Binge drinking or excessive alcohol consumption, categorized as a pattern of drinking that brings a person's blood alcohol concentration to 0.08, has… read more
    … to football Saturdays, where some 50,000 people come to Iowa City to tailgate and attend the Big10 football … 3. City of Iowa City. http://www.icgov.org/site/CMSv2/File/city- Council/under21FAQ.pdf. … http://www.icgov.org/site/CMSv2/File/cityCouncil/under21FAQ.pdf …
  • Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition

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    More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … nic surveillance capability, which can help countries con- form to IHR 2005 regulations. Acknowledgements This … Coberly et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 20 References 1 Lombardo JS, Ross DA. … Health Threats Journal JS Coberly et al. 2011, 4:s71 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 21 …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

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    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to … read more
    … H Zheng et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 1616 two non-negated ARI symptoms from … 2 Tokars JI, Burkom H, Xing J, English R, Bloom S, Cox K, et al. Enhancing time-series detection algorithms for … Health Threats Journal H Zheng et al. 2011, 4:s18 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 1717 …