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Epidemiology for Monitoring and Evaluation
2021Abstract Monitoring involves continuous observation to see if plans are on track and evaluation determines the effectiveness of planned health interventions delivered by the health services and programmes. The systems approach uses indicators to measure delivery, access, quality, and coverage of services and programmes and their impact ...
J Patrick Vaughan +2 more
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ORGANIZATION OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF TUBERCULOSIS IN THE CITY OF MOSCOW
Problems of Social Hygiene Public Health and History of Medicine, 2021Ensuring effective epidemiological surveillance of tuberculosis is essential and one of the paramount tasks for any national tuberculosis control program. The article analyzes the organization of the tuberculosis epidemiological monitoring system at the level of the subject, based on the experience of implementing such a system in the city of Moscow in
E M, Belilovsky, S E, Borisov
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Monitoring of Birth Defects and Epidemiology*
Congenital Anomalies, 1986Abstract A monitoring of birth defects based on systematic collection and accumulation of data in a defined population or selected hospitals using definite diagnostic criteria offers per se indispensable source of information for epidemiological studies such as retrospective case‐control study or prospective cohort study.Each results of statistics or ...
Masami ASHIZAWA, Keiichi KURACHI
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Disaster epidemiology and disease monitoring
Journal of Medical Systems, 1995Better epidemiologic knowledge of the mechanisms of death and of the types of injuries and illnesses caused by disasters is clearly essential to determining the appropriate relief medications, supplies, equipment, and personnel needed to effectively respond to such emergencies. The overall objective of disaster epidemiology is to measure scientifically
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Cost effectiveness of epidemiological monitoring
Science of The Total Environment, 1984Epidemiological monitoring (EPM) is emerging as a frequent counterpart to environmental monitoring (ENM). EPM and ENM are not alternatives to each other but rather complement each other. Each cannot be evaluated on its own merit but rather on its contributory effects in conjunction with the other. The effectiveness of EPM depends primarily on the types
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Monitoring the epidemiology of bloodstream infections: aims, methods and importance
Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2013Bloodstream infections (BSI) are a major cause of mortality, morbidity and medical cost. Even though monitoring activities have been on-going for decades, it is difficult to depict a full picture of the burden of BSI. The main reasons for shortcomings include varying study aims, definitions and inclusion criteria for both microorganisms and patients ...
Søgaard, M +3 more
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Epidemiological monitoring plan for geothermal developments
Science of The Total Environment, 1984In order to assure that geothermal developments in the Imperial Valley of California proceeded on an environmentally sound basis, The U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration contracted with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to conduct a comprehensive study of six aspects of the region and its potential problems: Air Quality Water Quality ...
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Contributions of Epidemiology to Quality Assessment and Monitoring
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1990The contribution of epidemiology to quality assessment and monitoring: a clear enough subject. But as I approached it, it slipped into ambiguity and confusion. What was quality assessment? What was monitoring? For that matter, what was quality? And the meaning of epidemiology was the deepest mystery of all. I must begin by defining my
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Monitoring of measles elimination using molecular epidemiology
Vaccine, 2001The different measles virus genotypes are confined to more or less distinct geographic regions. Molecular characterization of virus isolates has been successfully used to determine epidemiological links between cases and the geographic origin of imported viruses.
M N, Mulders, A T, Truong, C P, Muller
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Epidemiological issues in monitoring pressure damage
Journal of Wound Care, 1998A discussion of a reporting system on the prevalence and incidence of pressure ...
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