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Use of Unstructured Event-Based Reports for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
Free or low-cost sources of unstructured information, such as Internet news and online discussion sites, provide detailed local and near real-time data on disease outbreaks, even in countries that lack traditional public health surveillance.
Mikaela Keller, Michael Blench, Herman Tolentino, Clark C. Freifeld, Kenneth D. Mandl, Abla Mawudeku, Gunther Eysenbach, John S. Brownstein   +7 more
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Capture–Recapture Method for Estimating Annual Incidence of Imported Dengue, France, 2007–2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
Imported dengue cases pose the public health risk for local circulation in European areas, especially southeast France, where the Aedes mosquito is established.
Guy La Ruche, Dominique Dejour-Salamanca, Pascale Bernillon, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, Martine Ledrans, Alexis Armengaud, Monique Debruyne, Gérard-Antoine Denoyel, Ségolène Brichler, Laetitia Ninove, Philippe Desprès, Marc Gastellu-Etchegorry   +11 more
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Community life in Colombia under the surveillance of extreme right paramilitary organizations

, 2002
This article examines the ways in which surveillance mechanisms implemented by the paramilitaries (AUC) in certain regions of Colombia have contributed to the establishment of specific forms of social interactions. The aim of this paper is to explore the
Perault, Dominique
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Outcomes of Population Surveillance Data Collection Pilots and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System: What Happens in Texas. [PDF]

Surv Pract, 2023
Kirtland K, Garvin W, Yan T, Cavazos M, Berzofsky M, Freedner N, Muldavin B, Levine B, Gamble S, Town M.   +9 more
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Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi [PDF]

This paper describes and evaluates the first demographic surveillance system (DSS) in Malawi, covering a rural population of 30,000. Unlike others, the Karonga DSS relies on trained village informants using formatted registers for the primary ...
Paul EM Fine, Nuala McGrath, Judith R. Glynn, Johnbosco Mwafilaso, Venance Mwinuka, Keith Branson, Amelia Crampin, Elenaus Mwaiyeghele, Basia Zaba, Andreas Jahn   +9 more
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Putting health facilities on the map: a renewed call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in sub-Saharan African countries

BMC Medicine
Background Healthcare service provision, planning, and management depend on the availability of a geolocated, up-to-date, comprehensive health facility database (HFDB) to adequately meet a population’s healthcare needs. HFDBs are an integral component of
Peter M. Macharia, Lenka Beňová, Nicolas Ray, Aline Semaan, Moses M. Musau, John Kapoi Kipterer, Mark Herringer, Robert W. Snow, Emelda A. Okiro   +8 more
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Testing the protein-leverage hypothesis using population surveillance data. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2022
Senior AM, Raubenheimer D, Simpson SJ.
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Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and ...
Chuc, Nguyen T. K., Khan, WA, Catherine Kyobutungi, Bassirou Bonfoh, Wilopo, Siswanto, Soura, AB, Alex Ezeh, Tollman, Stephen M, Nurul Alam, Ali Sié, Beguy, D, Eliezer K. Ngoran, Herbst, K, Chuc, Nguyen TK, Alam, N, Soura, Abdramane B, Kant, Shashi, Chuc, Nguyen T.K., Berhe Weldearegawi, Weldearegawi, Berhe, Williams, TN, Shashi Kant, Gyapong, M, Abraham Oduro, Tollman, SM, Byass, P, Bonfoh, B, Juvekar, S, Kant, S, Kyobutungi, Catherine, Williams, Thomas N., Valérie Delaunay, Sankoh, Osman A, Bonfoh, Bassirou, Gyapong, Margaret, Jasseh, Momodou, Soura, Abdramane B., Wilopo, S, Peter Byass, Nguyen T.K. Chuc, Sié, Ali, Tanner, M, Tollman, Stephen M., Herbst, Kobus, Odhiambo, FO, Odhiambo, Frank O., Jasseh, M, Alam, Nurul, Abbas Bhuiya, Frank O. Odhiambo, Oduro, Abraham, Odhiambo, Frank O, Sankoh, Osman A., Thomas N. Williams, Osman A. Sankoh, Juvekar, Sanjay, Khan, Wasif A., Abdramane B. Soura, Bhuiya, Abbas, Sanjay Juvekar, Weldearegawi, B, Kyobutungi, C, Siswanto Wilopo, Marcel Tanner, P. Kim Streatfield, Streatfield, P. Kim, Bhuiya, A, Ezeh, Alex, Wasif A. Khan, Margaret Gyapong, Amelia Crampin, Chuc, NTK, Donatien Beguy, Oduro, A, Beguy, Donatien, Crampin, Amelia, Khan, Wasif A, Ngoran, Eliezer K., Tanner, Marcel, Kim Streatfield, P, Streatfield, P Kim, Momodou Jasseh, Ezeh, A, Byass, Peter, Sié, A, Williams, Thomas N, Stephen M. Tollman, Delaunay, Valérie, Crampin, A, Ngoran, EK, Kobus Herbst, Sankoh, OA, Ngoran, Eliezer K, Delaunay, V   +93 more
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Conceptualising hardship areas in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review

International Journal for Equity in Health
Introduction Many national development strategies are implemented at the subnational administrative level, serving as critical units for service delivery.
Caroline M. N. Auma, Pauline Karing’u, Eli Harriss, Mike English, Jacquie Oliwa, Emelda A. Okiro   +5 more
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If You See Something, Say Something: Lateral Surveillance and the Uses of Responsibility

, 2012
The US Department of Homeland Security’s new “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign displays a renewed drive to redistribute surveillance responsibilities to the public.
Reeves, Joshua
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