Public health surveillance refers to the process of gathering and monitoring information about health-related events in a community or population. It helps detect and track diseases, injuries, and other health issues so that authorities can take appropriate actions to protect and improve the well-being of the public.
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Public health surveillance surveys represent an important opportunity to collect representative data on the extent of behaviors or experiences that threaten the health of young people and to examine associations among these risk factors.
A new paper published in EPJ Data Science evaluates the currently available NDS surveillance papers before outlining a conceptual framework for integrating such data into current
public health surveillance systems.
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.
The findings, published in the journal Public Health Reports, suggest that real - time information about stamp bags can be used to supplement
current public health surveillance measures and could serve as an early warning of new illegal drugs of high lethality available at the local level.
In this role, she uses
public health surveillance data to inform the activities of Maine's Youth Suicide Prevention Program, Title V block grant, Children with Special Health Needs Program, and Office of Health Equity.
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.
But because these tests are so sensitive and may detect multiple organisms, infectious disease expertise may be necessary to interpret the clinical significance and facilitate
appropriate public health surveillance, according to new infectious diarrhea guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
«The PHI model can be used to prioritize chronic disease prevention efforts at the local and national level in Brazil and countries with
similar public health surveillance systems,» Simoes said.
«We found the smart thermometer data are highly correlated with information obtained from
traditional public health surveillance systems and can be used to improve forecasting of influenza - like illness activity, possibly giving warnings of changes in disease activity weeks in advance,» says lead study author Aaron Miller, PhD, a UI postdoctoral scholar in computer science.
The ability to quickly recognize emerging genetic changes is «essential» for
robust public health surveillance, notes a statement from the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Influenza Reference and Research at CDC, which will maintain and update the inventory.
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
«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 Epidemiology.
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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.
«This multifaceted approach could have important implications for the timeliness of
public health surveillance, hospital preparedness and clinical workflows, first for asthma then for other burdensome chronic conditions like childhood obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, to name a few.»
They then describe the key factors of the response plan,
public health surveillance and contact management, building laboratory capacity, infection prevention and control, case management, and risk communication.
«But also from
the public health surveillance point of view, we're losing access to knowing what they need.»
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.
Identifying and tracking individuals affected by the Ebola virus in densely populated areas presents a unique and urgent set of challenges in
public health surveillance.
It is time to shake up
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.
Successfully utilize the DAWN,
a public health surveillance system that accurately tracks national and local trends in drug abuse and subsequent death related incidents, and utilized by a variety of government agencies to counteract the ever growing drug epidemic.