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...
“At a recent briefing sponsored by the American Medical Association, infectious-disease specialists argued that military planners have botched the nation’s bioterrorism defenses and ignored the doctors who would form the leading lines of defense against terrorists wielding diseases to kill.” “”It’...
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 a local level. This continued in one form of another after the NHS was formed in 1948 with...
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 ...
Efficient and reliable surveillance and notification systems are vital for monitoring public health trends and disease outbreaks. They also often form the backbone of evidence-based decision-making processes, as well as infectious disease (ID) public health policies that deal with prioritisation, and th...
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...
losses [22]. In many European countries the bacterial tick-borne diseases are not notifiable, thus, it is difficult to determine the actual burden of these diseases [23]. Tick-borne disease risk has often been assessed by estimations of infected ticks in a certain area [24,25]. However, ...
pallidum, an epidemic of syphilis has been observed in Brazil in recent years, aggravated by the worldwide shortage of penicillin; health surveillance data have shown an increase in infection in adults, as well as the vertical transmission of this disease [53]. As this disease too is related ...
Public health records (n= 6) Public health (PH) records from public health offices reflect epidemiological data ranging from the incidence of different notifiable infectious diseases to all-cause mortalities. PH records-based EWSs were assessed in six studies; among the total number of studies ...