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Status of Legislation and Factors affecting Disease Surveillance in Nigeria: A qualitative inquiry
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The outbreak of infectious diseases with a propensity to spread across international boundaries is on an upward rise. Such outbreaks can be devastating with significant associated morbidity and mortality. The recent Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in… read more -
Epi Archive: Automated Synthesis of Global 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 -
Visualization the dynamic interactive maps for results of spatio-temporal scanning
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Scan statistics is one of the most widely used method for detecting and locating the clusters of disease or health-related events through the space-time dimension. Although the Specific software of SatScan is available for free and easier to use… read more -
Developing policy to support novel Caribbean Tourism and Health surveillance program
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In January 2016, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), serving 24 Member States(MS), began executing a regional Tourism and Health program (THP), recognizing that the health of Caribbean economies is closely related to the health of its… read more -
User Generated SQL Queries Inform Evaluation of NSSP ESSENCE
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As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data sources and parameters needed for their query. Then they select from the available output options (e.g., time series, table builder, data details).… read more -
Automated Processing of Electronic Data for Disease Surveillance
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National initiatives, such as Meaningful Use, are automating the detection and reporting of reportable disease events to public health, which has led to more complete, timely, and accurate public health surveillance data. However, electronic… read more -
Identifying Sociomarkers of Pediatric Asthma Patients at Risk of Hospital Revisiting
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A socio-marker is a measurable indicator of social conditions where a patient is embedded in and exposed to, being analogous with a biomarker indicating the severity or presence of some disease state. Social factors are one of the most clinical… read more -
Tracking drug-related overdoses at the local level: Using Syndromic Surveillance in the CO-NCR
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The United States is in the midst of a drug crisis; drug-related overdoses are the leading cause of unintentional death in the country. In Colorado the rate of fatal drug overdose increased 68% from 2002-2014 (9.7 deaths per 100,000 to 16.3 per 100,… read more