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Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2016 This status report on the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP), an emergency department-based injury and poisoning surveillance system, describes the result of migrating from a centralized data entry and coding process to a
J. Crain +6 more
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At-a-glance - The Child Maltreatment Surveillance Indicator Framework
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2020 The federal health portfolio has conducted surveillance on child maltreatment as a public health issue since the 1990s. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is now releasing the Child Maltreatment Indicator Framework, to take its place alongside ...
Aimée Campeau +6 more
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Public health surveillance for mental health.
Preventing chronic disease, 2010 Public health systems have relied on public health surveillance to plan health programs, and extensive surveillance systems exist for health behaviors and chronic disease. Mental health has used a separate data collection system that emphasizes measurement of disease prevalence and health care use.
Elsie J. Freeman, MD, MPH +6 more
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The Future of Infodemic Surveillance as Public Health Surveillance
Emerging 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
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Mushroom poisoning is a public health concern worldwide that not only harms the physical and mental health of those who are poisoned but also increases the medical and financial burden on families and society.
Li Zhang +6 more
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Circulating vaccine derived polio virus type 1 outbreak, Saadah governorate, Yemen, 2020
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Yemen has faced one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world since the start of the war in 2015. In 2020; 30 Vaccine Derived Polio Virus type 1 (VDPV1) isolates were detected in Saadah governorate.
Mutahar Ahmed Al-Qassimi +5 more
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Transmission dynamics and control measures of COVID-19 outbreak in China: a modelling study
Scientific Reports, 2021 COVID-19 is reported to have been brought under control in China. To understand the COVID-19 outbreak in China and provide potential lessons for other parts of the world, in this study we apply a mathematical model with multiple datasets to estimate the ...
Xu-Sheng Zhang +5 more
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Ethics in public health surveillance.
Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita, 2013 Public health programmes pose some very important ethical problems. One of the most pressing is the possible conflict between individual interests (and rights) and collective interests, which becomes particularly important in the public health surveillance setting.
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Public Health Disease Surveillance Networks
Microbiology Spectrum, 2014 ABSTRACTZoonotic infections are important sources of human disease; most known emerging infections are zoonotic (e.g., HIV, Ebola virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Nipah virus, and enteropathogenicEscherichia coli) and originated as natural infections of other species that acquired opportunities to come in contact with humans.
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Human biomonitoring of heavy metals in the vicinity of non-ferrous metal plants in Ath, Belgium
Archives of Public Health, 2016 Background A previous study revealed an environmental contamination by heavy metals in the vicinity of two non-ferrous metal plants in Ath, Belgium. The purpose of the current cross-sectional study was to estimate exposure of the population to heavy ...
Sébastien Fierens +6 more
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