Applying Modern Information Technology to Reporting for Public Health—the Role of Standards Clement McDonald, Indiana University School of Medicine, discussed the role of standards in the application of modern information technology to public health reporting. He pointed to the rich data sources stored electronically in clinical laboratories, pathology and cytology reporting systems, pharmacies...

Views Icon Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Get Permissions Cite Search Site Citation Chandra L. Ford; Commentary: Public Health Surveillance and Equity: Cause for Concern. Ethnicity Disease 1 January 2023; 33 (1): 61–62. doi: https://doi.org/10.18865/2022-2024 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference...

a Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Madrid, España b Dirección General de Salud Pública, Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón, España c Dirección de Salud Pública y Adicciones, Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, España d Dirección General de Salud Pública, Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, España e Dirección General de Salud...

With the rapid growth of social media, there is increasing potential to augment traditional public health surveillance methods with data from social media. We describe a framework for performing public health surveillance on Twitter data. Our framework, which is publicly available, consists of three components that work together to detect health-related trends in social media: a concept extract...

The emergence of the vector Ixodes scapularis in Ontario, Canada poses a significant public health risk. Both passive and active surveillance approaches have been employed by public health professionals (i.e., government employees) to monitor for the range expansion of this tick. Field surveillance using drag sampling for questing ticks is a recognized and effective method to identify reproduci...

In order to identify the various meanings ascribed to health surveillance, the authors conducted a systematic review of articles published from January 1990 to August 2005 in the following databases: LILACS, SciELO, CAPES, MEDLINE, and Web of Science. A total of 144 abstracts were read and 18 full texts of Brazilian articles were selected for in-depth analysis, leading to the design of a typolo...

1. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition: nutritional needs of low-birth-weight infants. Pediatrics 1985;75:976–86. 2. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Zinc injection. Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists; 2013. Available at http://www.ashp.org/drugshortages/current/bulletin.aspx?id=777. 3. American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutritio...

Introduction Effective infectious disease public health surveillance systems are often lacking in resource poor settings. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) put forword recommnded standards for public health surveillence.[1] Following the recommendations, the WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) in 1998 proposed the Integrated Dieases Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy for...

BACKGROUND Public health surveillance is often concerned with the analysis of health outcomes over small areas. Funnel plots have been proposed as a useful tool for assessing and visualizing surveillance data, but their full utility has not been appreciated (for example, in the incorporation and interpretation of risk factors). METHODS We investigate a way to simultaneously focus funnel plot ...