Shelter Surveillance and Local Public Health

Public Health Surveillance

Ethics in public health surveillance.

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. The present article first looks at the definitions of "public health surveillance" in a historical context and then identifies the ...

Public health surveillance in Latvia.

This paper presents public health surveillance data in Latvia. This is the first time these data are being published since the restoration of the Second Republic. The paper describes the state-of-the-art monitoring system of food and water safety. It also contains epidemiological data for Latvia. The conclusion brings a success story about the implementation of the monitoring programme in the c...

Track 2: Public Health Surveillance

The use of patient temperature data for biosurveillance in the emergency department DG Cochrane, and JR Allegra New Jersey Research Foundation, Morristown Memorial Hospital Residency in Emergency Medicine, Morristown, NJ, USA E-mail: [email protected] Introduction Biosurveillance systems commonly use emergency department (ED) patient chief complaint data (CC) for surveillance of influenza-li...

Public Health Surveillance Using Global Health Explorer

We demonstrate an early version of a semantic web tool, Global Health Explorer (GHX), that can be used to conduct public health surveillance using Twitter. Our infrastructure can use any controlled vocabulary to extract term uses in Twitter and supports hypothesis formation and exploration of data sets using visual analysis. The resulting data, gathered in RDF, makes it possible to analyze term...