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Improving Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening Biosurveillance Systems for Enhanced Situational Awareness
Content Type: Report
This report is designed to aid state, territorial, tribal, and local public health leaders as they improve their capacity to achieve situational awareness during a public health emergency. We intend this report to serve as a concise reference work… read more -
Homeless Population - Maricopa County Department of Public Health
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created using BioSense 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. The syndrome queries chief complaint and discharge diagnosis fields. The Maricopa County data include emergency room and inpatient visits. -
Flu Near You
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
Early detection and early response are key to preventing the spread of any disease. We believe that letting individuals report symptoms in real-time can complement traditional tracking while providing useful information directly to the public.… read more -
R Software Environment Resources
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
What is R? R is a language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a variety of UNIX platforms, Windows, and MacOS. It is similar to the S language and environment - in fact,… read more -
Primer: Emergency Legal Preparedness - Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
Content Type: References
This Primer, published by the Network for Public Health Law on Friday, September 8, 2017, provides a visual snapshot and a timeline on state and federal emergency declarations in response to Hurricane Harvey and Irma. On August… read more -
Vetsyn: Veterinary Syndromic Surveillance Streamlined into one R Package
Content Type: Abstract
To describe an R package that was designed to provide ready implementation of veterinary syndromic surveillance systems, from classified data to the generation of alerts and an html interface. Introduction Introduction The field of veterinary… read more -
Using Weather and Environmental Data in ESSENCE
Content Type: References
This document developed by the Oregon Public Health Division, Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention, is designed to help Oregon ESSENCE users create and interpret time series graphs that overlay health and weather or air quality data from a… read more -
Assessment of the use of ED Chief Complaint Data for monitoring Chronic Diseases
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic Surveillance (SS), traditionally applied to infectious diseases, is more recently being adapted to chronic disease prevention. Its usefulness rests on the large number of diverse individuals visiting emergency rooms with the possibility of… read more