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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"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
… 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 the …
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Occupational respiratory health surveillance at Minara Resources, Murrin Murrin mine site
… outlines the results of occupational respiratory health surveillance at Minara Resources, Murrin Murrin mine site. The research was conducted as part of a collaborative agreement between Edith Cowan University and Minara Resources, the overarching title of which was ‗Establishing best practice …
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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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Health Surveillance of Thinhorn Sheep (Ovis dalli) Herds in British Columbia and Alaska
The health of wildlife populations influences their sustainability in the face of ecological challenges. There is a paucity of information about the health status of free ranging thinhorn sheep populations (Ovis dalli), despite their economic, ecological, and cultural significance. Identification …
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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 be used …
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The animal health components of a biosurveillance system
Biosurveillance defines a One Health approach of gathering, integrating, interpreting, and communicating information related to health hazards or diseases affecting human, animal, or plant health and their environment to achieve early detection and warning, situational awareness, and better …
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COVID-19 and the decline of autonomy: contact tracing in the age of surveillance capitalism
… 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 shifts in …
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One Health-One City; the extent of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli in Cape Town
… Paris, France). Deploying the One - Health surveillance approach to study selected diarrheic bacterial pathogens in an informal settlement setting, this study sheds light on the extent of bacterial foodborne pathogens in human and non-human sources.
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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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Estudo prévio para validação de limpeza : padronização de procedimentos operacionais padrão e adequação de metodologia analítica para quantificação de resíduos de zidovudina.
… according the requirements of the Nati onal Health Surveillance Agency, and the selection of zidovudine as worst case contaminant was based on the need of the laboratory to validate the cleaning process for this pharmac eutical active . W ere determined the waste a cceptance limits , and the …
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Using wildlife to biomonitor for antimicrobial resistance in the Scottish environment
… resistance (AMR) is a threat to global health. Surveillance of AMR<br/>bacteria in wildlife host is key to understanding and tracking their spread<br/>throughout our environment. We established baseline data on the prevalence of<br/>AMR E. coli in Scottish wild deer, utilising faecal …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF SUBADULT SKELETAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT BASED ON A MICHIGAN MEDICAL EXAMINER SAMPLE
… 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 and age …
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Inclusive and adaptive assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness for population health research
… that often lead to selection bias and distorted health associations. It presents the development, validation, and application of a comprehensive suite of fitness assessment methods that are applicable in diverse population groups, enabling more inclusive, adaptive, and robust research. In the UK …
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D-Tree : examining the efficiency of a community case management mobile medical diagnostic tool
… electronic clinical protocols that enable health workers worldwide to deliver high quality care". They envision a world in which every person has access to high quality healthcare. To achieve this overarching goal D-Tree firstly, develops and validates clinical algorithms for use by health …
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Qualidade microbiológica de formulações farmacêuticas de uma farmácia magistral no município de João Pessoa-PB.
… der to maintain product quality . The Nation al Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) through Board Resolution (RDC ) 67, 8 October 2007 establishing that the Good Compounding Practices (BPM ) and quality control of products are required to maintain the integrity of the product and user protec tion …
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