Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Public Health and Biodefense
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Ping Yan, Hsinchun Chen, and Daniel Zeng Department of Management Information Systems University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona [email protected]; {hchen, zeng}@eller.arizona.edu
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Syndromic surveillance: the case for skillful investment.
PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data regarding a health-related event that enables public health authorities to reduce morbidity and mortality.1 Surveillance serves many public health functions—for example, estimating the burden of a disease or injury, portraying the natural history of a condition, determining the ...
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