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  • Potential elimination of rabies from Pemba Island, Tanzania

    Content Type: Case Study

    A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies control program is currently in use across southern Tanzania and was implemented in Pemba since 2011. The system allows for near real-time reporting of information on: patients with… read more
    … Institute COUNTRY: Tanzania Email: kennedylushasi@ymail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? _x__ Human health __x_ …
  • A Multidisciplinary One Health Approach to Mosquito Management

    Content Type: Case Study

    Large mosquito outbreaks mysteriously began to recur annually in Western Kentucky beginning in 2011. With up to 30 bites/minute in urban areas, these outbreaks warranted Governor-declared public health emergencies requiring expensive ($2 million… read more
    … of Kentucky COUNTRY: USA Email: gcbrown147@gmail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? ___x Human health __x_ …
  • Detecting Coherent Structures in Syndromic Time Series Using Wavelets

    Content Type: Abstract

    Temporally localized outbreaks occur in the presence of a complex background, greatly complicating both retrospective and real-time detection. Numerous techniques have been proposed for adjusting thresholds to account for this variable background.… read more
    … U.S. pneumonia and influenza death rates from 1996- 2006 (www.cdc.gov/mmwr). Figure 1(a) shows the time series, while … indicated by small p-values. 0 10 20 30 40 50 0 500 1000 co un ts 20 40 60 10 20 30 40 50 5 10 15 20 sc al e (d ay s) … 1998. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:51 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr Detecting Coherent Structures in Syndromic …
  • Multiple Surveillance Systems Track an Active Flu Season

    Content Type: Webinar

    Each season in the United States a multi-component influenza surveillance system monitors and describes influenza activity. This presentation will describe the overall picture of influenza virus circulation and compare data from each of the… read more
    … human disease, not routinely tested for  Yearly co-circulation of seasonal viruses: A (H3N2), A (H1N1), and … • Craig Steffens Useful Links • WHO FluNet: http://www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laborat ory/flunet/en/ • CDC Flu Website: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ • CDC FluView: …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Arboviral Diseases in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Arizona reports an average of 116 cases of West Nile virus (WNV) each year, and in 2015, Arizona saw a reemergence of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus. In addition, Arizona is at risk for importation of viruses such as chikungunya, dengue, and… read more
    … fields. The arboviral query identifies keywords and ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for chikungunya, dengue, SLE, WNV, and … was high priority based on the presence of a WNV ICD-10-CM diagnosis code. MCDPH obtained medical records, which … fields. The arboviral query identifies keywords and ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for chikungunya, dengue, …
  • Overall Disability (v1)

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: The Overall Disability (v1) definition is part of a group of eight definitions (seven domain-specific and one overall) to identify emergency department visits by people with disabilities using a set of criteria… read more
    … Surveillance Program (NSSP) Community of Practice (CoP) members to work with disability organizations and … of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)-led NSSP CoP to create diagnostic code-based definitions to identify … surveillance (gray background). Note: We encourage NSSP CoP members to work with disability organizations and …
  • Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system

    Content Type: Abstract

    There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more
    … Divita et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 21 Veterans Affairs has a real need to … 1–2 December 2010. References 1 Demner-Fushman D, Chapman WW, McDonald CJ. What can natural language processing do for … Annotation Workshop, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, pp 27–34. www.aclweb.org/anthol- ogy/W/W09/W09-3004.pdf. 3 Dolin R, …
  • Prioritization: a difficult word, and technique, to master. A review of prioritization approaches to multi-dimensional problems in health settings

    Content Type: Webinar

    In a context of finite resources, multiple needs and growing demands of organizational accountability, there has been an increase in the number of multi-dimensional prioritization exercises (of diseases, interventions, etc) in the health arena. Not… read more
    … 1(1-2), pp.45–67. Free copy at: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs40070-013-0002-9.pdf Tsoukias, … 1(1-2), pp.115–134. Free copy at: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs40070-013-0008-3.pdf 27 21 …