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The Application of a Novel Statistical Method for Syndromic Surveillance in England
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Syndromic surveillance is the real-time collection and interpretation of data to allow the early identification of public health threats and their impact, enabling public health action. Statistical methods are used in syndromic surveillance to… read more -
The French Emergency Department OSCOUR Network: Evaluation After a 10-year Existence
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After the major impact of the 2003 heat wave, France needed a reactive, permanent and national surveillance system enabling to detect and to follow-up various public health events all over the territory including overseas. In June 2004, the French… read more -
The Global Biosurveillance Portal: Biosurveillance for the Department of Defense
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The 2012 National Strategy for Biosurveillance1 calls for improved integration, synchronization, and coordination of national biosurveillance activities and acknowledges the benefits of collective knowledge through sharing and receiving of… read more -
Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshops
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This report summarize the work of eight Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshops that were held in Health and Human Services (HHS) Regions 1-7 and 10 from May 2013 through June 2015. The ultimate aim was to reach all ten HHS… read more -
The Impact of Weather on Influenza-like Illness Rates in Chicago
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Weather events such as a heat wave or a cold snap can cause a change to the number of patients and types of symptoms seen at a healthcare facility. Understanding the impact of weather patterns on ILI surveillance may be useful for early detection… read more -
The Need for Address Based Data: Disaggregation of Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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Epidemiological surveillance is used to monitor time trends in diseases and the distribution of the diseases in the population. To streamline the process of identifying outbreaks, and notification of disease, syndromic surveillance has emerged as a… read more -
The Public Health Community Platform: Shared Resources For Enterprise Solutions
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Public health is at a precipice of increasing demand for the consumption and analysis of large amounts of disparate data, the centralization of local and state IT offices, and the compartmentalization of programmatic technology solutions. Public… read more -
The Threat of Ebola Virus Disease: A Call to Integrate all Sectors in Surveillance Activities in Ghana
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Disease surveillance particularly surveillance for communicable diseases is essential in identifying cases and preventing the occurrence of an outbreak. Surveillance can also contribute to reducing the size of an outbreak. In order to achieve these… read more