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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Public Health Surveillance"”.
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Public health surveillance systems "Evidence informing practice"
Surveillance is as an essential function of a public health system. This thesis contains three discrete examples of public health surveillance, each utilising different methods and data sources to inform relevant areas of public health practice in NSW. The first study, which investigated the …
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Statistical estimation and changepoint detection methods in public health surveillance
… statistical methods implemented in two areas of public health research. The first topic involves estimation of national influenza-associated mortality rates via mathematical modeling. The second topic involves the timely detection of infectious disease outbreaks using statistical process control …
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Adaptive Threshold Method for Monitoring Rates in Public Health Surveillance
… The program uses data from hospitals and public health departments to detect outbreaks using the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS). The EARS method W2 allows one to monitor syndrome counts (W2count) from each source and the proportion of counts of a particular syndrome relative to …
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Privacy and identifiability in clinical research, personalized medicine, and public health surveillance
Electronic transmission of protected health information has become pervasive in research, clinical, and public health investigations, posing substantial risk to patient privacy. From clinical genetic screenings to publication of data in research studies, these activities have the potential to …
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Evaluation of Scan Methods Used in the Monitoring of Public Health Surveillance Data
… risk of other diseases, the research in public health surveillance and disease monitoring has grown tremendously. There is an abundance of data available in all sorts of forms. Hospitals, federal and local governments, and industries are all collecting data and developing new methods to …
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COVID-19 and the decline of autonomy: contact tracing in the age of surveillance capitalism
… makers are expanding on the known means of public health surveillance by collaborating with privately owned corporates and implementing new forms of surveillance technology, namely, contact tracing applications. This study examines the long-standing history of surveillance as well as the …
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Detecting and mapping real-time Influenza-like illness using Twitter stream data
<p>Influenza has been identified by the World Health Organization as a global issue that could be more effectively served through an accelerated and widely-accessible public health surveillance tracking process. The ability to map and predict influenza outbreaks in a real-time heat map would be …
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Structural Limitations of Data Protection Legislation for the Learning Health System: Proposing a Lex Specialis for Longitudinal Biomedical Data Use
… of emergent data-driven activities in the health sector, including public health surveillance, biomedical research, and personalised medicine. These difficulties are accentuated in transnational and intersectoral efforts, due to the heightened legal compliance challenges that arise from the …
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Communicable Diseases Epidemiology
… hosted in the Communicable Diseases Branch at Health Protection New South Wales (NSW). Presented in this bound volume are four research projects: an epidemiological study, data analysis study, outbreak response, and an evaluation of a public health surveillance system. I was also heavily …
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Communicable Diseases Epidemiology
… hosted in the Communicable Diseases Branch at Health Protection New South Wales (NSW). Presented in this bound volume are four research projects: an epidemiological study, data analysis study, outbreak response, and an evaluation of a public health surveillance system. I was also heavily …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF SUBADULT SKELETAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT BASED ON A MICHIGAN MEDICAL EXAMINER SAMPLE
… forensic investigations, but also to assist with public health surveillance. Because these roles go hand-in-hand, the MEO often detects epidemics before any public health entity does. By evaluating the decedent’s length and weight-at-death and comparing them to expected values, based on their sex …
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Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Australia
… this time, I was placed at the Department of Health, Office of Health Protection, in the Health Emergency Management Branch (HEMB). I also spent 8 weeks with the Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to fulfil the outbreak investigation requirement. I discuss my …
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Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Australia
… this time, I was placed at the Department of Health, Office of Health Protection, in the Health Emergency Management Branch (HEMB). I also spent 8 weeks with the Victorian Government Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to fulfil the outbreak investigation requirement. I discuss my …
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Using multi-criteria decision analysis to assess private sector agents' preferences and priorities in stocking malaria rapid diagnostic test kits in Uganda
… early and effective treatment, to facilitate public health surveillance, and to prevent drug resistance. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are an important tool in resource-constrained settings, as they do not rely on costly lab equipment and specially trained personnel. In Uganda's private sector …
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The Prevalence Of Hpv Associated Disease In Women Under Age 21: Who Will Be Missed Under The New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines?
… in the State of Connecticut for the purpose of public health surveillance. A subset of this data (681 women) under 21 years of age was analyzed for the years 2008-2010.</p> <p>Results: Of the 681 records, 478 (70.2%) women had CIN 2, 92 had CIN 2/3 (13.5%), and 110 (16.2%) had CIN 3. The highest …
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Relationship between Industry and Occupation with Cancer Using the Illinois BRFSS Survey (2018 to 2022)
… global cancer burden, emphasizing the need for surveillance and prevention. We investigated the association between industry, occupation, and self-reported cancer prevalence among working civilians in Illinois, using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data from the years 2018 to …
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Enhancing pnemonia surveillance in acute care facilities in post SARS era : a Canadian hospital surveillance study, 2003-2004 influenza season
… with the main goal of enhancing pneumonia surveillance in acute care facilities and the following specific objectives: 1) identify etiologies, factors, and clinical presentation associated with pneumonia; 2) assess the ODIN score on ICU patients to predict outcomes of severe pneumonia; 3) …
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Examining the scope of homicide-suicide perpetrated by law enforcement: A population-based retrospective study using multiple frames, 2003 - 2017
… by law enforcement is an understudied public health issue. Previous studies examining the prevalence domestic violence by law enforcement primarily rely on convenience sampling and self-reported measures, producing unreliable estimates. Homicide-suicide events, as a subset of domestic …
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Modelling Hepatitis C virus infection and treatment impact through serological surveillance data
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains a major public health concern in the United Kingdom (UK), particularly among people who inject drugs (PWID), who account for the majority of new and existing infections. Despite the availability of highly effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapies and a …
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Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden
… in statistical methods and comprehensive public health surveillance, understanding the many facets of infectious disease burden remains a challenge. Questions persist of how fast a disease is spreading, who in society is most at risk, and which interventions might have the capability to …
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