public healthBACKGROUND :Salmonella Paratyphi B (Paratyphoid B) is a rare infection and a notifiable disease in England. Disease is typically mild, and chronic carriage in children has been described in endemic countries. Almost all cases in England are imported, with very few cases of community...
Food poisoning is a notifiable disease in the UK and diagnostic laboratories are obliged to report the isolation of Salmonella from human clinical diagnostic samples. However, data are frequently incomplete and detailed exposure information for cases is not always available in retrospect. Therefore, targ...
China has the highest burden of hepatitis B disease in the world [8, 9], with the number of reported cases remaining among the highest of notifiable infectious diseases in mainland China over the past few decades. China has implemented various prevention and control measures to eliminate the ...
“Once detected, a massive public exposure could overwhelm local health systems that must treat victims of an outbreak, provide care for mass casualties, and prevent further disease.” (Pg. 1) “Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has special responsibilities, including detecting the di...
Electronic Health Information Quality Challenges and Interventions to Improve Public Health Surveillance Data and Practice. Objective. We examined completeness, an attribute of data quality, in the context of electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) of notifiable disease informatio... DIXON,E Brian,SIEGEL,...
Public health management in the UK, particularly England, is the cornerstone of pandemic control. Communicable disease control had been a local concern in the UK since the Public Health Acts that started in the 1870s, where medical officers for health would monitor disease occurrence and spread on...
England [6]. However, we did not have access to this or other data such as biomarkers for disease progression, social economic status, and other health risk behaviours (e.g. alcohol use) which are consistent predictors of mortality in people with HCV [41,42]. The advent of DAAs has ...
Anthrax in England and Wales Anthrax became notifiable as an infectious disease in the United Kingdom in 1959. Between 1961 and 1977 the total number of human cases notified was 126, a... S Ostlere,N Shepherd,J Watson - 《Practitioner》 被引量: 0发表: 1979年 Elektrische Betubung und Sc...
Privacy concerns by providers have been a barrier to disclosing patient information for public health purposes. This is the case even for mandated notifiable disease reporting. In the context of a pandemic it has been argued that the public good should supersede an individual's right to privacy....
The methods we used are important to designers in the public health domain because they transcend technology implementation. These methods could just as easily be used in the design of a notifiable conditions information system or an immunization registry. However, an important lesson for researchers ...