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COVID-19 mortality surveillance in Lebanon

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Epidemiological surveillance program of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has launched a rapid surveillance system for collecting COVID-19-related mortality data.
Linda Abou-Abbas   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Surveillance and Digital Health [PDF]

open access: yesThe American Journal of Bioethics, 2018
The ethical challenges posed by digital medicine and the potential impact on the therapeutic alliance are considerable.
Nicole, Martinez-Martin, Danton, Char
openaire   +2 more sources

Emergence of novel combinations of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain variants in Senegal

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineages that carry mutations in the spike gene are of concern for potential impact to treatment and prevention efforts.
Ambroise D. Ahouidi   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

SURVEILLANCE IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH [PDF]

open access: yesOccupational and Environmental Medicine, 2003
A definition of surveillance is as follows: “surveillance (ser-vâ1lens) noun. 1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed” ( The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992).
D, Koh, T-C, Aw
openaire   +2 more sources

Fatal and non-fatal firearm-related injuries in Canada, 2016–2020: a population-based study using three administrative databases

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology, 2023
Background Firearms are a substantial cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in Canada and globally, though evidence from contexts other than the USA is relatively limited.
Stephanie Toigo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Converting the existing disease surveillance from a paper-based to an electronic-based system using district health information system (DHIS-2) for real-time information: the Lebanese experience

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Introduction The Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon is in the process of converting the surveillance reporting from a cumbersome paper-based system to a web-based electronic platform (DHIS-2) to have real-time information for early detection of alerts ...
Dalal Youssef   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A new method for sampling African swine fever virus genome and its inactivation in environmental samples

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
African swine fever (ASF) is currently the most dangerous disease for the global pig industry, causing huge economic losses, due to the lack of effective vaccine or treatment.
Aleksandra Kosowska   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spoligotype-specific risk of finding lesions in tissues from cattle infected by Mycobacterium bovis

open access: yesBMC Veterinary Research, 2021
Background Although the pathogenic effect of members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in susceptible hosts is well known, differences in clinical signs and pathological findings observed in infected animals have been reported, likely due to a ...
Alberto Gomez-Buendia   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of late presentation and advanced HIV disease among people living with HIV in Oman (2000–2019)

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background The aim of this study was to determine the proportions and predictors of late presentation (LP) and advanced HIV disease (AD) in Oman. LP and AD were defined as presenting with a baseline CD4 count of
Ali Elgalib   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Future of Infodemic Surveillance as Public Health Surveillance

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
Public health systems need to be able to detect and respond to infodemics (outbreaks of misinformation, disinformation, information overload, or information voids). Drawing from our experience at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the COVID-19 State of Vaccine Confidence Insight Reporting System has been created as one of the first ...
Howard Chiou   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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