Multijurisdictional Approach to Biosurveillance, Kansas City

Multijurisdictional Approach to Biosurveillance, Kansas City

an independent organization acting as a data clearing-house between the reporting laboratories and public health departments. The system ran in tandem with conventional reporting methods. Laboratory test orders and results were aggregated and mapped to a common nomenclature. Reports were delivered through a secure Internet connection to the Kansas City Health Department (KCHD); during the first...

Supporting a community-based participatory evaluation approach to violence prevention in Kansas City.

Disparities in rates of firearm-related homicide exist for some segments of the population and by geographic area. There are interrelated factors across multiple social-ecological levels that increase the risk of violence for some individuals and groups, which may suggest the importance of comprehensive community intervention approaches for addressing violence. Participatory approaches can aid ...

non-corrective approach to pronunciation

the aim of this study has been to find answers for the following questions: 1. what is the effect of immediate correction on students pronunciation errors? 2. what would be the effect of teaching the more rgular patterns of english pronunciation? 3. is there any significant difference between the two methods of dealing with pronuciation errore, i. e., correction and the teaching of the regular ...

The Rehabilitation Institute of Kansas City.

Statistical Approach to Biosurveillance in Crisis: What is Next?

Motivated by the threat of bioterrorism, biosurveillance / syndromic surveillance systems are now in crisis: with the original purpose of early detection, and more than 10 years in existence, no health department has reported using them for this purpose. This has led to a shift away from only early detection of bioterrorist attacks. The goal has been expanded in two directions: firstly, to incl...