Analytic Biosurveillance Methods for Resource-Limited Settings

Analytic Biosurveillance Methods for Resource-Limited Settings

Background The 21st century has seen advances in many aspects of global disease surveillance.1 These advances have been driven by heightened concerns over perceived threats to public health both from natural pathogens and from bioterrorism. These concerns have led to mandated improvements at the international level, through revision of International Health Regulations of the World Health Organi...

Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance

Introduction Recent years’ informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from streaming statistical indicator evidence to outbreak reports. Information-gathering advances have outpaced the capability to combine the dispara...

Resuscitation in resource-limited settings.

Intrapartum-related hypoxia leading to deaths and disabilities continues to be a global challenge, especially in resource-limited settings. Primary prevention during labour is likely to have a significant impact, but secondary prevention with focus on immediate basic stabilization at birth can effectively reduce a large proportion of these adverse outcomes as demonstrated in the resource-rich s...

Viral load testing in resource-limited settings.

Establishing Medical Schools in Limited Resource Settings

INTRODUCTION One urgent goal of countries in sub-Saharan Africa is to dynamically scale up the education and work force of medical doctors in the training institutions and health facilities, respectively. These countries face challenges related to the rapid scale up which is mostly done without proper strategic planning, without the basic elements of infrastructure development, educational as w...