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Ensuring confidentiality and safety of cancer registry data in Kumasi, Ghana
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Cancer registration involves collecting information on patients with cancer. Population-based cancer registries in particular are useful in estimating the disease burden and to inform the institution of prevention and control measures. Collecting… read more -
Epi Archive: automated data collection of notifiable disease data
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Most countries do not report national notifiable disease data in a machine-readable format. Data are often in the form of a file that contains text, tables and graphs summarizing weekly or monthly disease counts. This presents a problem when… read more -
EpiCore: Crowdsourcing Health Professionals to Verify Disease Outbreaks
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EpiCore draws on the knowledge of a global community of human, animal, and environmental health professionals to verify information on disease outbreaks in their geographic regions. By using innovative surveillance techniques and crowdsourcing these… read more -
Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in Georgia
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Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a zoonotic, protozoal infection that is endemic in Georgia, which commonly affects young children. In recent years, the incidence of VL has increased sharply and the geographic distribution has increased. Recently, VL… read more -
Establishing a National Syndromic Surveillance System among Asylum Seekers
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Most European countries are facing a continuous increased influx of asylum seekers. Poor living conditions in crowded shelters and refugee camps increase the risk for - outbreaks of - infectious diseases in this vulnerable population. In line with… read more -
Estimating spatial patterning of dietary behaviors using grocery transaction data
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Unhealthy diet is becoming the most important preventable cause of chronic disease burden. Dietary patterns vary across neighborhoods as a function of policy, marketing, social support, economy, and the commercial food environment. Assessment of… read more -
Evaluating the application and utility of ESSENCE for early event detection
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In spite of the noted benefits of syndromic surveillance, and more than a decade after it started gaining support, the primary use for syndromic surveillance appears to be largely for seasonal and jurisdictional disease monitoring, event response… read more -
Evaluation of chlamydia and gonorrhea electronic provider reports data quality
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Electronic case reporting (eCR) is defined as the fully or semiautomated generation and electronic transmission of reportable disease case reports from an electronic health record (EHR) system to public health authorities, replacing the historically… read more