The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) relies on industry-standard code sets used in health information technology (i.e., LOINC, SNOMED, and HL7) to integrate surveillance systems that efficiently and securely transfer public health, laboratory, and clinical data from the health care system to public health departments. NEDSS comprises interoperable individual surveillance ...

OBJECTIVES Infections caused by respiratory viruses are associated with recurrent epidemics and widespread morbidity and mortality. Routine surveillance of these pathogens is necessary to determine virus activity, monitor for changes in circulating strains, and plan for public health preparedness. The Southern Nevada Health District in Las Vegas, Nevada, recruited five pediatric medical practic...

The National Poison Data System (NPDS) is a national near-real-time surveillance system that improves situational awareness for chemical and poison exposures, according to data from US poison centers. NPDS is the successor to the Toxic Exposure Surveillance System. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) use these data, which are owned and managed by the American Association of Poi...

Objective Aim To setup a nodal agency called the Centre for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) dedicated towards public health surveillance during disasters in the state of Odisha, India. For better public health preparedness in disaster management the objectives of CPHP will be to: 1. To strengthen public health surveillance and preparedness for disaster management, through research, capacity b...

Gold-mining may play an important role in the maintenance of malaria worldwide. Gold-mining, mostly illegal, has significantly expanded in Colombia during the last decade in areas with limited health care and disease prevention. We report a descriptive study that was carried out to determine the malaria prevalence in gold-mining areas of Colombia, using data from the public health surveillance ...

During a recent natural disaster public health staff required timely and comprehensive surveillance of priority health conditions, including injury, mental health disorders and selected infectious diseases, to inform response and recovery activities. Although traditional surveillance is of value in such settings it is constrained by a focus on notifiable conditions and delays in reporting. The ...

The Department of Health requires District Health Authorities to have plans ready for dealing with chemical incidents to protect public health. The three aspects of a chemical incident are environmental, medical toxicology, and public health advice and information. Public health surveillance plans require generation of a causal hypothesis and assessment of risk. Training provision should emphas...

INTRODUCTION OR BACKGROUND While social media interactions are currently not fully understood, as individual health behaviors and outcomes are shared online, social media offers an increasingly clear picture of the dynamics of these processes. SOURCES OF DATA Social media is becoming an increasingly common platform among clinicians and public health officials to share information with the pub...