Surveying Surveillance Studies
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Surveillance Studies
This article suggests some basic terms for surveillance analysis. The analysis requires a map and a common language to explain and evaluate its fundamental properties, contexts, and behaviors. Surveillance is neither good nor bad but context and comportment make it so. Topics considered in this article include: a broad definition of surveillance, its strategic and nonstrategic forms, and the tr...
متن کاملActive Surveying
Opinion leaders play an important role in influencing people’s opinions, actions and behaviors. Although a number of methods have been proposed in literature for identifying influentials using secondary sources of information, the true set of opinion leaders revealed through primary sources, such as surveys, is still favored in many domains. In this work, we present a new active learning method...
متن کاملRetrospective studies: excellent tools to complement surveillance.
Emerging infectious diseases pose an important challenge to public health globally. The identification of an etiologic pathogen responsible for an emerging infection in humans can be a major task. The time required to isolate and characterize a new infectious agent sufficiently to adopt control measures and, when possible, to select and make available curative and preventive treatments can be c...
متن کاملSome Land Surveying Problems
It is not probable that many of you would be interested in the academic presentation of a method for finding the area of a given polygon, as you each have a system of your own which is probably mathematically acceptable. However, I might take the liberty of citing to you pages 300 and 301 in Engineering Surveys, Elementary and Applied, by Rubey, Lommel, Todd, where you will find a good discussi...
متن کاملSpecial Studies Report 1996: Varicella Active Surveillance
Varicella vaccine, a live, attenuated strain of varicella-zoster virus, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in March 1995. In July 1996, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its guidelines for prevention of varicella and recommended routine use of varicella vaccine for infants 12 to 18 months of age as...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Communication
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1499-6642,0705-3657
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2004v29n2a1437