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National Surveillance for Health-Related Workplace Absenteeism, United States 2017-18
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During an influenza pandemic, when hospitals and doctors' offices are or are perceived to be overwhelmed, many ill people may not seek medical care. People may also avoid medical facilities due to fear of contracting influenza or transmitting it to… read more -
Neonatal tetanus surveillance in Bayelsa state of Nigeria: a five-year review
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Neonatal tetanus (NT) though a preventable disease, remains a disturbing cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality particularly in low income countries where maternal and child care are substandard and antitetanus immunization coverage is still poor… read more -
New technologies to treatment of Spotted Fever, GVE VII - Santo Andre, SP, Brazil.
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The use of new technologies such as Online Maps and the QR Code facilitates the knowledge dissemination in the health science, aiding in diagnostic elucidation and intelligent decisions making, thus offering an improvement in the quality of care… read more -
On estimation the relative risk of small area and visualization spatio-temporal map
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Disease mapping is a method used to descript the geographical variation in risk (heterogeneity of risk) and to provide the potential reason (factors or confounders) to explain the distribution. Possibly the most famous uses of disease mapping in… read more -
Opioid Seizures by Law Enforcement in Relation to Emergency Room Visits
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In 2016, there were approximately 63,000 deaths nationally due to drug overdose. This trend continues to increase with the provisional number of US deaths for 2017 being approximately 72,000 (1). This increase in overdose deaths is fueled largely by… read more -
Optimization of Linkage between North Carolina EMS and ED Data: EMS Naloxone Cases
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The opioid overdose crisis has rapidly expanded in North Carolina (NC), paralleling the epidemic across the United States. The number of opioid overdose deaths in NC has increased by nearly 40% each year since 2015.1 Critical to preventing overdose… read more -
Organisation of local actors and data reporting in veterinary public health
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Disease surveillance systems can be based on two components of surveillance: active surveillance in which the diseases are looked for on a regular basis in a defined population, and passive surveillance where the diseases are looked for whenever… read more -
Partnership in Surveillance: A Kerala model to Emerging Public Health Threats
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Kerala is a small state in India, having a population of only 34 million (2011 census) but with excellent health indices, human development index and a worthy model of decentralised governance. Integrated Disease Surveillance Program, a centrally… read more