Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of geographic variations in disease with
respect to demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious …

Syndromic surveillance refers to methods relying on detection of individual and population
health indicators that are discernible before confirmed diagnoses are made. In particular …

After information about a dengue case in Germany acquired in Croatia, health professionals
and the public in Croatia were alerted to assess the situation and to enhance mosquito …

This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive,
critical analysis of the Olympic Games using a multi-disciplinary social science approach …

This report describes the design and implementation of the Real-time Outbreak and Disease
Surveillance (RODS) system, a computer-based public health surveillance system for early …

Several new viral respiratory tract infectious diseases with epidemic potential that threaten
global health security have emerged in the past 15 years. In 2003, WHO issued a worldwide …

Current electronic health record systems are primarily clinical in focus, designed to provide
patient-level data and provider-level decision support. Adapting EHR systems to serve …

Objective: Develop and evaluate a natural language processing application for classifying
chief complaints into syndromic categories for syndromic surveillance. Introduction: Much of …

Biomedical informatics involves a core set of methodologies that can provide a foundation
for crossing the" translational barriers" associated with translational medicine. To this end …

Background: The NIH is committed to improving healthcare quality in the US and has set up
initiatives to address problems such as the fragmented nature of healthcare provision. A …