Disease Surveillance (eBook, ePUB)

Technological Contributions to Global Health Security
Redaktion: Blazes, David L.; Lewis, Sheri H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book will show you how new reporting requirements, combined with new technologies, big data sources, and sophisticated analytic approaches now enable the public health community to identify potential outbreaks and initiate a response earlier than at any other time in history. The book covers various topics including disease surveillance systems, international health regulations policy, challenges surrounding system deployment and implementation, data visualization techniques, the strengths and weaknesses of open source software, and compliance with the International Health Regulations established by the World Health Organization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 213
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429585999
• Artikelnr.: 55340078

Autorenporträt

Edited by David L. Blazes, MD, MPH, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Sheri H. Lewis, MPH, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA

Inhaltsangabe

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE CONCEPTS. Introduction to Electronic Disease
Surveillance. International Health Regulations: Policy. Public Health
Surveillance System Considerations. Surveillance Challenges in
Resource-Limited Settings. The Role and Functional Components of
Statistical Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance. Effective Public Health
Data Visualization. DISEASE SURVEILLANCE PRACTICE. The International Health
Regulations in Practice: Surveillance and a Global Community Seeking Health
Security. Possible Solutions for Sustainable Surveillance Systems. mHealth
and Its Role in Disease Surveillance. Global Health and Open Source
Software (OSS): An Example of Legal Considerations Impacting Technology and
Global Health Policy Implementation. The Role of Mass Gathering
Surveillance. Promising Advances in Surveillance Technology for Global
Health Security.