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Openness, Transparency and Equity in Public Health Surveillance Data Sharing
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The outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, influenza A (H1N1) in 2009 and Ebola in 2014 have shown increasingly that infectious diseases can spread globally in a short timeframe, affecting both high- and low-income countries… read more -
Performance of Early Outbreak Detection Algorithms in Public Health Surveillance from a Simulation Study
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Early detection of outbreaks is crucial in public health surveillance in order to enable rapid control measures. Statistical methods are widely used for outbreak detection but no study has proposed to evaluate and compare thoroughly the… read more -
Place Matters: Revealing Infectious Disease Disparities Using Area-Based Poverty
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Most public health surveillance systems in the United States do not capture individual-level measures of socioeconomic position. Without this information, socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes can be hidden. However, US Census data can be… read more -
Emerging Disease Syndromic Surveillance for Hurricane Katrina Evacuees Seeking Shelter in Houston's Astrodome and Reliant Park Complex
Content Type: Journal Article
Transmission of infectious diseases became an immediate public health concern when approximately 27,000 New Orleans-area residents evacuated to Houston's Astrodome and Reliant Park Complex following Hurricane Katrina. This article presents a… read more -
Development and Application of Syndromic Surveillance for Severe Weather Events Following Hurricane Sandy
Content Type: Journal Article
Following Hurricane Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) developed indicators to enhance syndromic surveillance for extreme weather events in EpiCenter, an online system that collects and analyzes… read more -
The Role of Applied Epidemiology Methods in the Disaster Management Cycle
Content Type: Journal Article
Disaster epidemiology (i.e., applied epidemiology in disaster settings) presents a source of reliable and actionable information for decision-makers and stakeholders in the disaster management cycle. However, epidemiological methods have yet to be… read more -
Challenges to Implementing Communicable Disease Surveillance in New York City Evacuation Shelters After Hurricane Sandy, November 2012
Content Type: Journal Article
Hurricane Sandy hit New York City (NYC) on October 29, 2012. Before and after the storm, 73 temporary evacuation shelters were established. The total census of these shelters peaked at approximately 6,800 individuals. Concern about the spread of… read more -
Cryptosporidium in Wild Frogs (Rana spp) Consumed by humans in Kaduna State Nigeria
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Since Cryptosporidium can be transmitted by ingestion of infected food animals and poorly treated water and by direct contact it is possible for infection to occur through ingestion of under cooked frogs and through handling and processing of… read more