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Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background Vector-borne diseases are a major burden to public health. Controlling mosquitoes is considered the most effective way to prevent vector-borne disease transmission.
André B. B. Wilke +5 more
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International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018 Introduction Frailty is a combination of factors that increase vulnerability to functional decline, dependence and/or death. Frailty cannot easily be defined by comorbidities or medical treatment alone.
Sabrina Wong +5 more
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Developing a Primary Care EMR-based Frailty Definition using Machine Learning
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018 Introduction Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that is predictive of heightened vulnerability for disability, hospitalization, and mortality. Annually an estimated 250,000 frail Canadians die, and this estimate is expected to double in the next 40 years ...
Sylvia Aponte-Hao +7 more
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Tick related diseases in Switzerland, 2008 to 2011
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2012 QUESTION UNDER STUDY: To determine the incidence and determinants of tick related diseases in Switzerland, such as tick bites and Lyme borreliosis in primary care and tick borne encephalitis.
Ekkehardt Altpeter +5 more
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Optimizing sentinel surveillance in temporal network epidemiology [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 AbstractTo help health policy makers gain response time to mitigate infectious disease threats, it is essential to have an efficient epidemic surveillance. One common method of disease surveillance is to carefully select nodes (sentinels, or sensors) in the network to report outbreaks.
Yuan Bai +5 more
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The Sentiworld project: global mapping of sentinel surveillance networks in general practice
BMC Primary Care, 2022 Background Sentinel networks composed of general practitioners (GPs) represent a powerful tool for epidemiologic surveillance and ad-hoc studies. Globalization necesitates greater international cooperation among sentinel networks.
Andrew Meci +10 more
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PAN-RESPIRATORY DISEASE SURVEILLANCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 The Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) was established by WHO in 1952 to conduct surveillance for influenza to inform strain selection for seasonal vaccines and to monitor for influenza pandemics.
Bill Davis
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Sentinel surveillance for travellers' diarrhoea in primary care [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2007 Abstract Background Travellers' diarrhoea is the most common health problem among international travellers and much of the burden falls on general practitioners. We assessed whether sentinel surveillance based in primary care could be used to monitor changes in the epidemiology of travellers' diarrhoea.
Sarvotham Tinnu S +4 more
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Routine and sentinel surveillance methods
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2021 Surveillance, whether active or passive, is a dynamic process. It is fundamental to public health decision-making and subsequent action. Choice of diseases for surveillance, development of methods, ongoing systematic evaluation and dissemination to those who need to know, are each components which require expert, knowledgeable attention.
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Dengue Sentinel Surveillance System in Countries Without Efficient Local Epidemiological Surveillance [PDF]
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2013 The surveillance of travel‐acquired dengue infections in French military personnel1 or others could be strengthened through an inclusion of a local laboratory (civilian or military)‐based surveillance for dengue‐associated laboratory parameters. The laboratory personnel could be on the lookout for any …
Subhash C, Arya, Nirmala, Agarwal
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