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Title

Disease surveillance : a public health informatics approach / edited by Joseph S. Lombardo, David L. Buckeridge.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Lombardo, Joseph S., 1946-
• Buckeridge, David Llewellyn, 1970-

Description

xxiii, 458 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Public health surveillance
• Medical informatics
• Population Surveillance > methods
• Public Health Informatics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Disease surveillance, a public health priority / Joseph S. Lombardo and David Ross -- Pt. I. System design and implementation -- 2. Understanding the data : health indicators in disease surveillance / Steven Babin, Steven Magruder, Shilpa Hakre, Jacqueline Coberly and Joseph S. Lombardo -- 3. Obtaining the data / Richard Wojcik, Logan Hauenstein, Carol Sniegoski and Rekha Holtry -- 4. Alerting algorithms for biosurveillance / Howard Burkom -- 5. Putting it together : the biosurveillance information system / Logan Hauenstein, Richard Wojcik, Wayne Loschen, Raj Ashar, Carol Sniegoski and Nathaniel Tabernera -- Pt. II. Case studies -- 6. Modern disease surveillance systems in public health practice / Sheri Happel Lewis, Kathy Hurt-Mullen, Colleen Martin, Haobo Ma, Jerome I. Tokars, Joseph S. Lombardo and Steven Babin -- 7. Canadian applications of modern surveillance informatics / Jeff Aramini and Shamir Nizar Mukhi -- 8. Case study : use of tele-health data for syndromic surveillance in England and Wales / Duncan Cooper -- 9. Surveillance for emerging infection epidemics in developing countries : EWORS and Alerta DISAMAR / Jean-Paul Chretien, David Blazes, Cecilia Mundaca, Jonathan Glass, Sheri Happel Lewis, Joseph S. Lombardo and R. Loren Erickson -- Pt. III. Evaluation, education, and the future -- 10. Evaluating automated surveillance systems / David L. Buckeridge, Michael W. Thompson, Steven Babin and Marvin L. Sikes -- 11. Educating the workforce : public health informatics training / Harold Lehmann -- 12. The road ahead : the expanding role of informatics in disease surveillance / Joseph S. Lombardo.

ISBN

• 9780470068120 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0470068124 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006053118

OCLC

• ocm76871609
• 76871609
• SCSB-5331641

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries