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Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads
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The increasing use of the Internet to arrange sexual encounters presents challenges to public health agencies formulating STD interventions, particularly in the context of anonymous encounters. These encounters complicate or break traditional… read more -
Tracking Drug Overdose Trends in Ohio using ED Chief Complaints
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The State of Ohio, as well as the country, has experienced an increasing incidence of drug ODs over the last three decades [3]. Of the increased number of unintended drug OD deaths in 2008, 9 out of 10 were caused by medications or illicit drugs [1… read more -
Tracking Dynamic Water-borne Outbreaks with Temporal Consistency Constraints
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Space-time scan statistics are often used to identify emerging spatial clusters of disease cases [1,2]. They operate by maximizing a score function (likelihood ratio statistic) over multiple spatio-temporal regions. The temporal component is… read more -
TRACnet: A National Phone-based and Web-based Tool for the Timely Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Rwanda
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In Rwanda, communicable diseases are the mostly predominant representing 90% of all reported medical consultations in health centers. The country has often faced epidemics including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. To enhance its… read more -
Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers
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The effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response systems depends, in part, on the effectiveness of communication between agencies and individuals involved in emergency response, including health care providers who play a significant role in… read more -
Tweeting Fever: Are Tweet Extracts a Valid Surrogate Data Source for Dengue Fever?
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Dengue fever is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the Republic of the Philippines (RP) and across the world. Early identification of geographic outbreaks can help target intervention campaigns and mitigate the severity of outbreaks.… read more -
A Conceptual Strategy for Stengthening eSurveillance in the African Region
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In response to major epidemic and pandemic outbreaks, WHO-AFRO and its Member States have adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy to address International Health Regulations (2005) as well as individual Member Stateâ… read more -
A Data Mining Approach to Identify Climatic Determinants of Dengue Fever Patterns in French Guiana
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Epidemic dynamics of dengue fever are driven by complex interactions between hosts, vectors and viruses that are influenced by environmental and climatic factors [1]. The development of new methods to identify such specific characteristics becomes… read more