Sentences with phrase «as public health surveillance»

Two Toronto scientists studied over two million tweets to assess the social network's value as a public health surveillance tool and came away impressed.

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As a public health analyst in the HIV / AIDS prevention branch, West supported the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) project, an ongoing effort that studies prevalence of infection in specific risk groups in cities.

In the first external revision proposed to GFT, Ayers and co-researchers David Zhang, Maurcio Santiliana (both with Harvard University), and Benjamin Althouse (with the Santa Fe institute) explored new methods for using open - sourced, publicly available Google search archives to forecast influenza, an approach that can serve as a blueprint to fix broader shortcomings in public health surveillance.

Our data and findings will also support development of more effective molecular diagnostic tests, as well as improved public health surveillance tools.»

The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging DisHealth Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Dishealth laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.

Heroic worldwide surveillance efforts have avoided a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic, but as shown in the recent H1N1 outbreak, viruses can still outwit even the best public health efforts.

In the current fiscal environment there is also concern from some public health offices that dollars allocated to detecting biological threats through BioWatch may be competing with the ones needed to provide complementary information to help detect threats — such as picking up any uptick in certain symptoms at hospitals through robust health surveillance.

High - risk municipalities have been given financial support to improve their public health and traditional first response systems as well as disease surveillance capabilities.

The study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Public Health and Surveillance, used Twitter as a way to gain insight into the health of people in neighborhoods across the U.S. «Increasingly we're seeing more and more studies looking at health beyond just disease, incorporating indicators of wellbeing,» says Quynh Nguyen, lead author of the study and an assistant professor at the University of Utah College of HHealth and Surveillance, used Twitter as a way to gain insight into the health of people in neighborhoods across the U.S. «Increasingly we're seeing more and more studies looking at health beyond just disease, incorporating indicators of wellbeing,» says Quynh Nguyen, lead author of the study and an assistant professor at the University of Utah College of Hhealth of people in neighborhoods across the U.S. «Increasingly we're seeing more and more studies looking at health beyond just disease, incorporating indicators of wellbeing,» says Quynh Nguyen, lead author of the study and an assistant professor at the University of Utah College of Hhealth beyond just disease, incorporating indicators of wellbeing,» says Quynh Nguyen, lead author of the study and an assistant professor at the University of Utah College of HealthHealth.

Dr. Cezar started her career at APHIS serving as a Veterinary Medical Officer, a role under Veterinary Services, where she worked firsthand in surveillance of critical public health diseases such as Chronic Wasting Disease and Scrapie.

The NPRM would have allowed covered entities to disclose protected health information without individual authorization to: (1) A public health authority authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; (2) a public health authority or other appropriate authority authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect; (3) a person or entity other than a governmental authority that could demonstrate or demonstrated that it was acting to comply with requirements or direction of a public health authority; or (4) a person who may have been exposed to a communicable disease or may otherwise be at risk of contracting or spreading a disease or condition and was authorized by law to be notified as necessary in the conduct of a public health intervention or investigation.

(i) A public health authority that is authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; or, at the direction of a public health authority, to an official of a foreign government agency that is acting in collaboration with a public health authority;

With recent accusations of fake news and the weaponization of information as a mechanism of steering public perceptions dominating headlines around the world, have you ever considered the reality that private dragnet surveillance via social media properties, ISPs, search engines, health sector organizations etc., heavily contribute to the problems of adversarial intervention and streamlined distribution of malware, ransomware, other forms of malicious payloads and propaganda?

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