Sentences with phrase «for public health surveillance»

The protocol did not require informed consent of participants because it was based entirely on the use of existing medical data that are routinely collected for public health surveillance purposes.21, 22

It was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University for public health surveillance and continuous quality improvement.

Today, the French National Institute for Public Health Surveillance said that an estimated 110,000 residents of Reunion, population 700,000, had been infected with the Chikungunya virus — almost 22,000 of them in the week from 6 to 12 February.

«Using patients» trail of digital crumbs for public health surveillance.»

Not exact matches

The 2012 National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention provides actions in surveillance, research, communication, education, health care, and public policy to guide efforts in saving lives by reducing injuries.

To re-examine cervical cancer mortality rates from 2002 to 2012 in the United States, Anne Rositch, PhD, MSPH, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her colleagues obtained estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics and the NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Mortality Database.

David Blythe manages health surveillance for the Maryland public health department, which coordinates with dozens of regional health departments to track what are called «flulike symptoms.»

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the Public Health research professor and senior author of the Health research professor and senior author of the study.

In West Africa, the U.S. Defense Department built a 25 - bed, state - of - the - art hospital specifically for healthcare workers, to be staffed by the U.S. Public Health Service for the next six months, said Stic Harris, chief of the Alert and Response Operations team in the Division of Integrated Biosurveillance at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

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.

Combined, these models give public health and governmental officials vital climate information needed to create early warning systems — systems that can alert the public to the risk for disease and allow public health officials to mobilize resources and enact mosquito control programs and surveillance ahead of peak season.

The authors, who hail from public health agencies, academia, and the private sector, highlight the need for future rigorous evaluation and validation of standards before NDS can effectively reinforce existing public health surveillance systems.

What that signals to countries all over the world is not only are we supposed to rev up our surveillance and think about our pandemic response capacity, we're also supposed to have access to some tools for our public health tool kits.

Zika remains a significant public health threat in affected countries and regions, highlighting the need for continued surveillance and research on the virus.

«We believe this way of examining drug evidence could be expanded upon for use in public health surveillance and monitoring in other regions,» said lead author Kathleen Creppage, M.P.H., C.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Epidemipublic health surveillance and monitoring in other regions,» said lead author Kathleen Creppage, M.P.H., C.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Epidemihealth surveillance and monitoring in other regions,» said lead author Kathleen Creppage, M.P.H., C.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of EpidemiPublic Health's Department of EpidemiHealth's Department of Epidemiology.

«Local media is the bedrock of internet surveillance — the kind of work that we do in terms of scouring the web looking for early signs of something taking place in a community,» explained Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's and a pioneer in the field of using sources other than public health data to do this type of work.

However, the routine practice of data sharing in scientific research, rather than reactive data sharing, will be needed to effectively prepare for future public health emergencies, according to Jean - Paul Chretien from the Integrated Biosurveillance Section, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Defense Health Agency, United States, and colleagues, writing in PLOS Medhealth emergencies, according to Jean - Paul Chretien from the Integrated Biosurveillance Section, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch, Defense Health Agency, United States, and colleagues, writing in PLOS MedHealth Surveillance Branch, Defense Health Agency, United States, and colleagues, writing in PLOS MedHealth Agency, United States, and colleagues, writing in PLOS Medicine.

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.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

This special issue of Science focuses on diverse areas where public health can be improved by making better use of the resources we have in our grasp, ranging from tailoring engineering projects to meet the needs of material - and infrastructure - limited regions, to building a surveillance network for the detection of drug resistance, to empowering women.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization of 66,000 pediatricians, has repeatedly advocated for stricter gun laws, violence prevention programs, research for gun violence prevention and public health surveillance, physician counseling to patients on the health hazards of firearms and mental health access to address exposure to violence.

The surge has continued into February, said Lynn Bartosh, AIDS surveillance coordinator for the Ventura County Public Health Department.

Concerning public health measures, in line with the Regulations the Director - General is recommending, on the advice of the Committee, that all countries intensify surveillance for unusual outbreaks of influenza - like illness and severe pneumonia.

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;

This provision states that: «[N] othing in this part shall be construed to invalidate or limit the authority, power, or procedures established under any law providing for the reporting of disease or injury, child abuse, birth or death, public health surveillance, or public health investigation or intervention.»

Each year, the FDA, World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health experts collaborate on the review of influenza disease surveillance and laboratory data collected from around the world in an effort to identify strains that may cause the most illness in the upcoming sHealth Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health experts collaborate on the review of influenza disease surveillance and laboratory data collected from around the world in an effort to identify strains that may cause the most illness in the upcoming shealth experts collaborate on the review of influenza disease surveillance and laboratory data collected from around the world in an effort to identify strains that may cause the most illness in the upcoming season.