Comparing spatio-temporal methods of non-communicable disease surveillance.

Spatio-Temporal Disease Surveillance

There are two principal impediments in statistical process control methods for the detection of bio-terrorism events: firstly, these methods aggregate over space by examining total counts and thus ignore the spatial dimension of the task and secondly they fail to adjust for the usual (seasonal) behaviour of diseases (e.g., Steiner et al., 2011 where the focus is early detection of the start of ...

The Survey Effectiveness of Active Method in Communicable Disease Surveillance

Background and purpose: Surveillance is a system of continuing health checks, is considered as a critical part of public health practice for planning and implantation of effective prevention and control interventions for communicable diseases in the region. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of an active method of data collection on the improvement of these d...

Non-communicable disease surveillance and population surveys.

Spatio-Temporal Access Methods

The rapid increase in spatio-temporal applications calls for new auxiliary indexing structures. A typical spatio-temporal application is one that tracks the behavior of moving objects through location-aware devices (e.g., GPS). Through the last decade, many spatio-temporal access methods are developed. Spatio-temporal access methods focus on two orthogonal directions: (1) Indexing the past, (2)...

the survey effectiveness of active method in communicable disease surveillance

background and purpose: surveillance is a system of continuing health checks, is considered as a critical part of public health practice for planning and implantation of effective prevention and control interventions for communicable diseases in the region. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of an active method of data collection on the improvement of these diseases surveillance...