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Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals in Greece, 2022; results of the third point prevalence survey

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Background The burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and the extent of antimicrobial use (AU) are periodically recorded through Point Prevalence Surveys (PPS) in acute care hospitals coordinated by the European Centre for Disease Prevention ...
Konstantinos Palaiopanos, Dimitra Krystallaki, Kassiani Mellou, Petros Kotoulas, Christina-Anna Kavakioti, Styliani Vorre, Georgia Vertsioti, Maria Gkova, Antonios Maragkos, Kyriaki Tryfinopoulou, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Sotirios Tsiodras, Theoklis Zaoutis   +12 more
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Developing content for national population health surveys: an example using a newly developed sedentary behaviour module

Archives of Public Health, 2019
Background While physical (in) activity surveillance has grown and continues to grow globally, surveillance of sedentary behaviour is in its infancy.
Stephanie A. Prince, Gregory P. Butler, Karen C. Roberts, Pam Lapointe, Andrew M. MacKenzie, Rachel C. Colley, Maria Foley, Travis J. Saunders, Wendy Thompson   +8 more
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Vulnerability within families headed by teen and young adult mothers investigated by child welfare services in Canada

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2015
Introduction: Young mothers' families are at increased risk of child maltreatment and other poor health and social outcomes. Methods: Chi-square analyses of pooled child welfare services data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and ...
W. Hovdestad, M. Shields, G. Williams, L. Tonmyr   +3 more
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A Functional Public Health Surveillance System

American Journal of Public Health, 2012
Lenert and Sundwall identify opportunities and challenges of the Meaningful Use (MUse) incentive programs that advance standardized electronic reporting to health departments at a time when there is limited funding to upgrade systems. We concur that cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a possible remedy.
Taha A, Kass-Hout, Kathleen, Gallagher, Seth, Foldy, James W, Buehler   +3 more
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A decade of 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine use in Lithuania: trends in invasive pneumococcal serotype dynamics

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundStreptococcus pneumoniae causes invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), a serious condition characterized by the spread of pneumococci to normally sterile human body sites.
Aurelija Petrutienė, Jekaterina Sinotova, Nijolė Pupienienė, Raminta Marcinonytė, Indrė Padvilikytė, Jelena Razmuk, Svajūnė Muralytė, Svajūnė Muralytė, Aistė Bulavaitė, Milda Plečkaitytė   +9 more
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Self-harm hospitalizations and neighbourhood level material and social deprivation in Canada: an ecological study

BMC Psychiatry
Background Socio-economic status is associated with self-harm at the individual and area level. In Canada, there is limited evidence on the relationship between area-level markers of socio-economic status and self-harm. The objective of this study was to
Li Liu, Nathaniel J. Pollock, Gisèle Contreras, Yuan Xu, Wendy Thompson   +4 more
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Strengthening health sector capacities through permanent health education: workshops addressing public health emergencies in Brazil

Frontiers in Public Health
This initiative strengthens Brazil's Unified Health System (SUS) by enhancing preparedness, public health surveillance, and response capacities to public health emergencies across 27 Federative Units (FUs).
Taynná Vernalha Rocha Almeida, Danielly Portes Schelle, Paula Orofino Moura Costa, Isabella de Oliveira Campos Miquilin, Caroline Martins José dos Santos, Paola Freitas de Oliveira, Joelma Ferreira Gomes Castro, Leonora Rios de Souza Moreira, Vinicius Chozo Inoue, Edenilo Baltazar Barreira Filho, Edenilo Baltazar Barreira Filho, Márcio Henrique de Oliveira Garcia   +11 more
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Factors associated with COVID-19 deaths in Sierra Leone, March 2020 - March 2022

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health emergency that has claimed millions of lives. In Sierra Leone, limited information exists on the factors associated with COVID-19 deaths.
Stephen Lawrence Musa Kamara, Adel Hussein Elduma, Umaru Sesay, Binta Bah, Joel Francis Mansaray, Magoba Bridget, James Sylvester Squire, Amara Alhaji Sheriff, Solomon Aiah Sogbeh, Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru   +9 more
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Public Health Surveillance and Information Technology [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1998
Applying Modern Information Technology to Reporting for Public Health—the Role of Standards Clement McDonald, Indiana University School of Medicine, discussed the role of standards in the application of modern information technology to public health reporting. He pointed to the rich data sources stored electronically in clinical laboratories, pathology
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Experience of field testing in Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic, January to August 2021

BMJ Global Health, 2022
Zeina Farah, Nada Ghosn, Tatiana Tohme, Hala Abou Naja, Reem Abdel Malak, Hawraa Sweidan, Hamad Hassan   +6 more
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