Introduction Specific communicable diseases have to be reported by law within a specific time period. In Ohio, prior to 2001, most of these disease reports were on paper reports that were reported from providers to local health departments. In turn the Communicable Disease Nurse mailed the hardcopies to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH). In 2001 the Ohio Disease Reporting System (ODRS) was ro...

The Northridge earthquake on January 17, 1994 caused extensive damage to structures, disruption of lives, and 60 deaths. This event also brought to light the fact that the County’s Acute Communicable Disease Control Unit (ACDC) was ill-prepared to make a rapid assessment of actual or potential communicable disease outbreaks in the community. Traditionally, active surveillance in Los Angeles Cou...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to measure burden of disease and identifies health priorities from the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) indicator. METHODS This is the first study on burden of disease for a department in Colombia by using a standardized methodology. By using the. DALYs indicator, burden of disease was identified in the department of Nariño according to the guidelines establi...

Non communicable diseases are the leading cause of death and disability whole over world. The main non include cardiovascular disease, Cancer, Diabetes Chronic respiratory diseases. To prevent control non-communicable it very essential to know epidemiology disease. address any health problem is size population. Epidemiology helps find out frequency, distribution determinants kills around 41 mil...

Natural disasters are tragic incidents originating from atmospheric, geologic and hydrologic changes. In recent decades, millions of people have been killed by natural disasters, resulting in economic damages.Natural and complex disasters dramatically increase the mortality and morbidity due to communicable diseases. The major causes of communicable disease in disasters are categorized into fou...

BACKGROUND Communicable diseases do not respect national boundaries and are important challenges to health internationally. Considerable variation exists in the structure and performance of surveillance systems for communicable disease prevention and control. European Union (EU) countries should share ideas to improve the quality of surveillance systems. The study aims to support the improvemen...

The burden of disease framework facilitates the assessment of the health impact of diseases through the use of summary measures of population health such as Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). However, calculating, interpreting and communicating the results of studies using this methodology poses a challenge. The aim of the Burden of Communicable Disease in Europe (BCoDE) project is to summ...