In 2020 the coronavirus outbreak changed lives of people worldwide. After an initial time period in which it was unclear how to battle virus, social distancing has been recognised globally as effective method mitigate disease spread. This called for technological tools such Mobile Contact Tracing Applications (MCTA), are used digitally trace contacts among people, and case a positive is found, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Partner notification is an important strategy for prevention of Chlamydia trachomatis infection and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can be prevented by early diagnosis and treatment of the female sex partners of men infected with C. trachomatis (strategy 1) and by preventing reinfection in women through diagnosis and treatment of their male sex partners (strateg...

To minimize unwanted interruption and information overload during surveillance, mobile police officers need to be supported by a mobile, contextaware notification system. This system adapts message presentation to message priority and context of use. A prototype is designed and evaluated in a simulated surveillance task, requiring users to attend to videos while handling messages on a mobile de...

Internet-scale Web services-based event notification services face several new challenges that have not been addressed in traditional event notification systems. In this paper, an Open Publish/Subscribe (OPS) model is proposed to address these new challenges. The openness of OPS model enables collaboration among different event notification systems from different organizations. The layered arch...

Patient-initiated partner notification of sexually transmitted infection (STI), i.e. patients informing their sexual partners of a diagnosis, is a cornerstone of STI prevention. Growing evidence suggests that women exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) may fear such notification, or face negative consequences in response to STI disclosure. The current study assessed associations of IPV wit...

Zhejiang Province was a high endemicity for hepatitis B disease in the 1990's. A number of measures implemented since then have begun to control and prevent hepatitis B. In 1992, hepatitis B vaccine came on the market. In 2002, hepatitis B vaccine was included in the national Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Between 2007 and 2010, catch-up vaccination was implemented for children under...

BACKGROUND Dengue is becoming an increasing threat to non-endemic countries. In Japan, the reported number of imported cases has been rising, and the first domestic dengue outbreak in nearly 70 years was confirmed in 2014, highlighting the need for greater situational awareness and better-informed risk assessment. METHODS Using national disease surveillance data and publically available trave...

NatioNal Notifiable Diseases surveillaNce system, 1 april to 30 JuNe 2014 A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 54,644 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a notification received date between 1 April to 30 June 2014 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population f...

OBJECTIVE To review all notified cases of leprosy in England and Wales between 1953 and 2012. DESIGN National surveillance study of all reported cases. SETTING England and Wales. OUTCOME Number and characteristics of reported cases. RESULTS During this period, a total of 1449 leprosy cases were notified. The incidence fell from 356 new cases notified between 1953 and 1962 to 139 new cas...

With the growing popularity of CORBA as a distributed computing infrastructure standard, the need for a reliable CORBA messaging solution is being increasingly felt. The Event Service, which is the first such solution, provides inadequate event delivery guarantees and lacks many important features such as configurable quality of service and filtering. A Notification Service has since been speci...