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Beyond early warning: towards greater granularity in the use of event-based surveillance for public health emergencies [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background The international health emergency caused by the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus demonstrated the expanding usefulness of multi-country disease outbreak information gathered through event-based surveillance (EBS) as an extension beyond the ...
C. J. McKnight, A. T. Aboushady, C. R. Lane   +2 more
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A Survey of Emergencies Management Systems in Smart Cities

IEEE Access, 2022
The rapid urbanization process in the last hundred of years has deeply changed the way we live and interact with each other. As most people now live in urban areas, cities are experiencing growing demands for more efficient and sustainable public ...
D. G. Costa, J. P. J. Peixoto, Thiago C. Jesus, P. Portugal, F. Vasques, Elivelton O. Rangel, M. Peixoto   +6 more
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Learning with technology during emergencies: A systematic review of K-12 education

British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Emergency situations that cause damage to educational buildings or require the closure of schools due to unsafe health, environmental, or political conditions can be an unwelcomed interruption to education Indeed, the recent COVID‐19 pandemic created the
H. Crompton, D. Burke, Katy Jordan, Samuel W. G. Wilson   +3 more
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WHO Global Situational Alert System: a mixed methods multistage approach to identify country-level COVID-19 alerts

BMJ Global Health, 2023
Background Globally, since 1 January 2020 and as of 24 January 2023, there have been over 664 million cases of COVID-19 and over 6.7 million deaths reported to WHO.
, Richard Pebody, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Mahmoud Hassan, Thierno Balde, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Sandra Adele, Kazuki Shimizu, Charlotte Christiane Hammer, Lisa Owen, Villyen Motaze, Michael Höhle, Piers Mook, Masaya Kato, Kathleen Ryan, Tanja Schmidt, Marjam Esmail, Jessica Lee Abbate, Opeayo Ogundiran, Sophie Maes, Victoria D Bélorgeot, Ana Riviere-Cinnamond, Martina McMenamin, Jessica Kolmer, Irena Djordjevic, Finlay Campbell, Henry Laurenson-Schafer, Basma Mostafa Abdelgawad, Amarnath Babu, Neale Batra, Hannah Brindle, Tshewang Dorji, Ingrid Hammermeister Nezu, Lucía Hernández-García, Friday Idoko, Sarah Karmin, Zyleen A Kassamali, Tamano Matsui, Mengjuan Duan, Boris I Pavlin, Tika Sedai, Teresa Zakaria, Abdi R Mahamud, Dominic Cocciolone, Christian Gapp, Kayla King, Aimee Latta, Sandra Lindmark, Ihor Perehinets, Amy Gimma, Jason McKnight, Margaux Mesle, Maarten Van Haverbeke, Tamar Amar, Ka Yeung Cheng, Silviu Ciobanu, Lauren E MacDonald, Jeff Pires, Jukka Pukkila, Celine Roman, Laila Skrowny, Ara Tadevosyan, Catherine Smallwood, Juniorcaius Ikejezie, Blanche Johanna Greene-Cramer, Adedoyin Abiola Awofisayo-Okuyelu, Bernadette Mirembe, Tondri Noe Guinko, Homa Attar-Cohen, Stephen Leshan Koyie, Samuel Mesfin, Veronica Cristea, Nikola Sklenovska, Mostafa Mahran, Emily Meyer, Grace Brough, Harsh Lata, Alessandro Miglietta, Sydel Parikh, Eri Togami, Yurie Izawa, Aura Rocio Escobar Corado Waeber, Anahi Rico Chinchilla, Yeo Won Jin, Raquel Medialdea Carrera, Amaia Artazcoz Glaria, Hyo Jeong Kim, Muhammed Tayyab   +87 more
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Management of hypertensive emergencies: a practical approach

Blood Pressure, 2021
Background: Acute increases of high blood pressure values, usually described as ‘hypertensive crises’, ‘hypertensive urgencies’ or ‘hypertensive emergencies’, are common causes of patients’ presentation to emergency departments.
Gian Paolo Rossi, Giacomo Rossitto, Chiarastella Maifredini, Agata Barchitta, Andrea Bettella, Raffaele Latella, Luisa Ruzza, Beatrice Sabini, Teresa M. Seccia   +8 more
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Telehealth for global emergencies: Implications for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2020
The current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is again reminding us of the importance of using telehealth to deliver care, especially as means of reducing the risk of cross-contamination caused by close contact. For telehealth to be effective as part of an
Anthony C. Smith, E. Thomas, C. Snoswell, Helen H Haydon, A. Mehrotra, J. Clemensen, L. Caffery   +6 more
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Priority age targets for COVID-19 vaccination in Ethiopia under limited vaccine supply

Scientific Reports, 2023
The worldwide inequitable access to vaccination claims for a re-assessment of policies that could minimize the COVID-19 burden in low-income countries.
Margherita Galli, Agnese Zardini, Worku Nigussa Gamshie, Stefano Santini, Ademe Tsegaye, Filippo Trentini, Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Mattia Manica, Valeria d’Andrea, Giovanni Putoto, Fabio Manenti, Marco Ajelli, Piero Poletti, Stefano Merler   +14 more
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Challenges to the system of reserve medical supplies for public health emergencies: reflections on the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic in China.

BioScience Trends, 2020
On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announced an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), China is now at a critical period in the control of the epidemic.
Xu Wang, Xiaoxi Zhang, Jiangjiang He
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Slow emergencies: Temporality and the racialized biopolitics of emergency governance

Progress in Human Geography, 2020
How lives are governed through emergency is a critical issue for our time. In this paper, we build on scholarship on this issue by developing the concept of ‘slow emergencies’.
B. Anderson, Kevin Grove, L. Rickards, M. Kearnes   +3 more
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Public health emergencies of international concern: a historic overview

Journal of Travel Medicine, 2020
Rationale The International Health Regulations (IHR) have been the governing framework for global health security since 2007. Declaring public health emergencies of international concern (PHEIC) is a cornerstone of the IHR.
A. Wilder-Smith, S. Osman
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