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Routine data for malaria morbidity estimation in Africa: challenges and prospects

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging to measure relying on epidemiological modelling to evaluate the impact of investments and providing an in-depth analysis of progress and trends in malaria response globally.
Victor A. Alegana, Emelda A. Okiro, Robert W. Snow   +2 more
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Improving Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Diseases through Geocoded Morbidity Assignment [PDF]

Public Health Reports®, 2009
Objectives. We assessed the added value of using a geocoderto improve sexually transmitted disease (STD) surveillance data and decision support through redistribution of inaccurately assigned morbidity in Richmond, Virginia. Methods. Virginia initiated geocoding of STD data as a data quality tool in 2002.
Jeffrey A, Stover, Khalid A, Kheirallah, Philip Christopher, Delcher, Carrie B, Dolan, LaShonda, Johnson   +4 more
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Morbidity Surveillance in the British Army - the first 12 months [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1998
This paper describes the data obtained during the first 12 months of the morbidity surveillance system used, world-wide, by the British Army in operational and non-operational settings and the economic impact of such morbidity in terms of estimated working days lost.
L A, Wright, V, Demicheli, W J, Gillespie, T O, Jefferson   +3 more
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The WHO maternal near-miss approach and the maternal severity index model (MSI): tools for assessing the management of severe maternal morbidity.

PLoS ONE, 2012
ObjectivesTo validate the WHO maternal near-miss criteria and develop a benchmark tool for severe maternal morbidity assessments.MethodsIn a multicenter cross-sectional study implemented in 27 referral maternity hospitals in Brazil, a one-year ...
Joao Paulo Souza, Jose Guilherme Cecatti, Samira M Haddad, Mary Angela Parpinelli, Maria Laura Costa, Leila Katz, Lale Say, Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity Group, Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity   +8 more
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Monitoring maternal near miss/severe maternal morbidity: A systematic review of global practices.

PLoS ONE, 2020
There is international interest in monitoring severe events in the obstetrical population, commonly referred to as maternal near miss or severe maternal morbidity.
Natalie England, Julia Madill, Amy Metcalfe, Laura Magee, Stephanie Cooper, Charleen Salmon, Kamala Adhikari   +6 more
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Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

, 2007
Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggregated their results into broad age groups and across ...
Abdullah, Salim, Adazu, Kubaje, Binka, Fred N, Diallo, Diadier, Hodgson, Abraham, Ilboudo-Sanogo, Edith, Masanja, Honorati, Nhacolo, Ariel, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Smith, Thomas, Thompson, Ricardo   +10 more
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Prospective morbidity surveillance of Shell refinery and petrochemical employees. [PDF]

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1991
Results for a prospective morbidity study of 14,170 refinery and chemical workers from 1981 through 1988 are presented. Illness/absence data for this study were extracted from the morbidity section of the Shell Health Surveillance System which includes records of all illness/absences in excess of five days. Age adjusted annual morbidity frequency rates
S P, Tsai, C M, Dowd, S R, Cowles, C E, Ross   +3 more
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Global burden of human brucellosis : a systematic review of disease frequency [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: This report presents a systematic review of scientific literature published between 1990-2010 relating to the frequency of human brucellosis, commissioned by WHO.
A El Sherbini, A Yacoub, AA Haghdoost, Anna S. Dean, B Bonfoh, B Hernandez, E Jelastopulu, E Schelling, Esther Schelling, F De Massis, F Roth, FK Al-Ani, G Marder, G Pappas, GJ Jennings, Helena Greter, Hélène Carabin, I Avdikou, J Ariza, J Zinsstag, J Zinsstag, JA Al Tawfiq, JA Crump, Jakob Zinsstag, KE Elbeltagy, Lisa Crump, M Minas, MA Al Sekait, MA Idris, MR Hosseini, MR Khorasgani, N Gargouri, O Karabay, QM Abu Shaqra, R Awad, S Vancelik, SA Dahouk, SM Alavi, SR Alballa, TJ Doyle, Z Cetinkaya   +40 more
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A research agenda for malaria eradication: monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2011
Monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance measure how well public health programs operate over time and achieve their goals. As countries approach malaria elimination, these activities will need to shift from measuring reductions in morbidity and ...
malERA Consultative Group on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Surveillance
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Whole Genome Analysis of Selected Human Group A Rotavirus Strains Revealed Evolution of DS-1-Like Single- and Double-Gene Reassortant Rotavirus Strains in Pakistan During 2015–2016

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Acute gastroenteritis due to group A rotaviruses (RVAs) is the leading cause of infant and childhood morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries including Pakistan.
Asma Sadiq, Nazish Bostan, Habib Bokhari, Kwe Claude Yinda, Jelle Matthijnssens   +4 more
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