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Issue Brief: New Federal Paradigm in Marijuana Legalization
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Conflicting activities related to marijuana at state and federal levels raise questions as to whether a new federal/state legal relationship concerning marijuana legalization is forthcoming. The Network for Public Health Law has been tracking… read more -
Issue Brief: Fatal Overdose Review Panels – Overview of Laws in Six States
Content Type: References
The overdose crisis continues unabated. While the epidemic was originally fueled largely by prescription opioid pain relievers, around 2010 a dramatic increase in heroin-related overdoses began. After remaining essentially stable for years, overdose… read more -
Defining Public Health Situation Awareness - Outcomes and Metrics for Evaluation
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A decade ago, the primary objective of syndromic surveillance was bioterrorism and outbreak early event detection (EED. Syndromic systems for EED focused on rapid, automated data collection, processing and statistical anomaly detection of indicators… read more -
Detecting Changes in Chief Complaint Word Count: Effects on Syndromic Surveillance
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The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) receives daily ED data from 49 of NYC’s 52 hospitals, representing approximately 95% of ED visits citywide. Chief complaint (CC) is categorized into syndrome groupings using… read more -
Detecting the Determinants of Health in Social Media
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The explosive use of social media sites presents a unique opportunity for developing alternative methods for understanding the health of the public. The near ubiquity of smartphones has further increased the volume and resolution of data that is… read more -
Detection of a Swine Erysipelas Outbreak Using Enhanced Passive Surveillance
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EPS is a comprehensive effort to complement other types of surveillance and provide early detection and situational awareness of significant endemic, zoonotic, and emerging diseases of livestock. The concept for EPS involves gathering syndromic and… read more -
Detection of Patients with Influenza Syndrome Using Machine-Learning Models Learned from Emergency Department Reports
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Early detection of influenza outbreaks is critical to public health officials. Case detection is the foundation for outbreak detection. Previous study by Elkin el al. demonstrated that using individual emergency department (ED) reports can better… read more -
Determinants of Outbreak Detection Performance
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The choice of outbreak detection algorithm and its configuration can result in important variations in the performance of public health surveillance systems. Our work aims to characterize the performance of detectors based on outbreak types. We are… read more