The Departments of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in Kansas City and Wichita are passionate about healthy communities and are committed to improving the health of people through teaching, research and service. Our faculty, which includes physicians, epidemiologists, social scientists, and research scientists, conduct research and work in the community to harness public health and scienti...

Objective Review of the origins and evolution of the field of syndromic surveillance. Compare the goals and objectives of public health surveillance and syndromic surveillance in particular. Assess the science and practice of syndromic surveillance in the context of public health and national security priorities. Evaluate syndromic surveillance in practice, using case studies from the perspecti...

Background Despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. Local Health Departments (LHDs) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   Methods This exploratory research compared ten (10) North Carolina LHDs w...

∗Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin; ‡Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Center Research Program, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin; §Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine Division, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health...

aUniversity of Kentucky, College of Public Health, Lexington, KY bNew York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY cNorth Carolina Division of Public Health, Raleigh, NC dKansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka, KS eUtah Department of Health Violence and Injury Prevention Program, Salt Lake City, UT fMaryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MD gM...

1CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2Acute Disease Epidemiology Section, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; 3Syndromic Surveillance Project, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; 4Health Information Systems Section, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA; 5Epidemiology Section, Georgia Department of Public Heal...

universal health coverage in thailand: achievement and experiences learned doshmangir l1,2 (msc, phd), rashidian a3,4 (md, phd), bazyar m3* (msc, phd condidate) 1 department of health services management, iranian center of exellence in health management, tabriz university of medical sciences, tabriz, iran 2 tabriz health services management research center, tabriz university of medical sciences...

1 National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2 Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 3 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 4 Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. 5 Department ...