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Validation of routine lymphatic filariasis morbidity surveillance in the Upper West Region, Ghana. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
In Ghana and other countries pursuing elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF), suspect cases of lymphoedema and hydrocele are routinely enumerated by community health workers (CHWs) during mass drug administration (MDA). These data, in addition to cases
Hope Simpson, Kofi Agyabeng, Bright Alomatu, Ernest Mensah, Solomon Atinbire, Melissa Edmiston, Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah, Joseph Opare, Rachel L Pullan   +8 more
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Findings From Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance and Review in Maryland.

JAMA Netw Open, 2022
ImportanceIn the US, more than 50 000 women experience severe maternal morbidity (SMM) each year, and the SMM rate more than doubled during the past 25 years. In response, professional organizations called for birthing facilities to routinely identify and review SMM events and identify prevention opportunities.ObjectiveTo examine SMM levels, primary ...
Wolfson C, Qian J, Chin P, Downey C, Mattingly KJ, Jones-Beatty K, Olaku J, Qureshi S, Rhule J, Silldorff D, Atlas R, Banfield A, Johnson CT, Neale D, Sheffield JS, Silverman D, McLaughlin K, Koru G, Creanga AA.   +18 more
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Validation study of obstetric hospitalization data held on the Brazilian National Health System Hospital Information System for maternal morbidity surveillance: Brazil, 2021-2022 [PDF]

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Objective To validate the Brazilian National Health System Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS) for maternal morbidity surveillance. Methods This was a cross-sectional study conducted in 2021/2022, taking as its reference a national study on maternal ...
Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues, Lana dos Santos Meijinhos, Luis Carlos Torres Guillen, Marcos Augusto Bastos Dias, Valéria Saraceni, Rejane Sobrinho Pinheiro, Natália Santana Paiva, Cláudia Medina Coeli   +7 more
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Using NC DETECT for Comprehensive Morbidity Surveillance on Poisoning and Overdose [PDF]

Online J Public Health Inform, 2015
Twelve new locally defined case definitions were added to NC DETECT in May and June 2014 to facilitate timely surveillance for poisoning and overdose in North Carolina. The case definitions cover acute alcohol poisoning, poisoning, unintentional poisoning, heroin overdose, medication or drug overdose, methadone overdose, opioid overdose, prescription ...
Ising A, Harmon K, Waller A, Proescholdbell S, Deyneka L.   +4 more
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Indoor residual spraying of insecticide and malaria morbidity in a high transmission intensity area of Uganda. [PDF]

, 2012
BackgroundRecently the use of indoor residual spraying of insecticide (IRS) has greatly increased in Africa; however, limited data exist on the quantitative impacts of IRS on health outcomes in highly malaria endemic areas.Methodology/principal ...
Baxi, Sanjiv M, Dissanayake, Gunawardena, Dorsey, Grant, Filler, Scott, Gasasira, Anne, Kakeeto, Stella, Kamya, Moses R, Kigozi, Ruth, Nasr, Sussann, Rubahika, Denis, Sserwanga, Asadu   +10 more
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Surveillance of Morbidity During Wildfires—Central Florida, 1998 [PDF]

JAMA, 1999
Several large wildfires occurred in Florida during June-July 1998, many involving both rural and urban areas in Brevard, Flagler, Orange, Putnam, Seminole, and Volusia counties. By July 22, a total of 2277 fires had burned 499,477 acres throughout the state (Florida Department of Community Affairs, unpublished data, 1998).
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Collaborative improvement project to decrease maternal mortality rate across five hospitals in Saudi Arabia

BMJ Open Quality, 2022
Maternal morbidities and mortalities remain high globally, yet are preventable events. Maternal haemorrhage is a primary cause of both maternal morbidity and mortality.
Ahmed Alzahrani, Noura Alnowaiser, Mohamed Nassif, Teresa Bissen, Yasser K Alotaibi, Mawahib Wang   +5 more
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Extent of and trends in inequalities in child stunting in Sierra-Leone from 2005 to 2013: evidence from demographic and health surveys and multiple indicator cluster surveys

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Comprehensive assessment of stunting disparity in Sierra-Leone has not been done so far. We aimed to document extent and over time dynamics of inequality in stunting in Sierra-Leone using approaches that facilitate implementation of ...
Gebretsadik Shibre, Betregiorigis Zegeye, Jemal Haidar   +2 more
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Persistence of Schistosomiasis-Related Morbidity in Northeast Brazil: An Integrated Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021
Objective: To analyze the temporal trend and spatial patterns of schistosomiasis-related morbidity in Northeast Brazil, 2001–2017. Methods: Ecological study, of time series and spatial analysis, based on case notifications and hospital admission data, as
Bárbara Morgana da Silva, Anderson Fuentes Ferreira, José Alexandre Menezes da Silva, Rebeca Gomes de Amorim, Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues, Marta Cristhiany Cunha Pinheiro, Fernando Schemelzer de Moraes Bezerra, Jorg Heukelbach, Alberto Novaes Ramos   +8 more
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Epidemiological trend of notifiable infectious diseases in Yangpu District of Shanghai during 1950‒2020

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics and trends of notifiable infectious diseases in Yangpu District of Shanghai， from 1950 to 2020， and to provide scientific basis for the formulation of control measures.MethodsDescriptive epidemiological method was ...
JI Lu, WANG Lin, MA Shumei, HAN Xue
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