The science of surveillance is rapidly evolving due to changes in public health information
and preparedness as national security issues, new information technologies and health …

Background Covid-19 pandemic control has imposed several non-pharmaceutical
interventions (NPIs). Strict application of these measures has had a dramatic reduction on …

Estimation of flood quantiles in ungauged catchments is a common problem in hydrology.
For this, the log-linear regression model is widely adopted. However, in many cases, a …

Linked administrative population data were used to estimate the burden of childhood
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalization in an Australian cohort aged< 5 years. RSV …

The log-linear regression model is one of the most commonly used models to estimate flood
quantiles at ungauged sites within the regional frequency analysis (RFA) framework …

Background Over the last decade, a few studies have investigated the possible adverse
effects of ambient air pollution on preterm birth. However, the correlation between them still …

Objective This research aimed to (i) assess the effects of time‐varying predictors (day of the
week, month, year, holiday, temperature) on daily ED presentations and (ii) compare the …

It remains challenging to forecast local, seasonal outbreaks of influenza. The goal of this
study was to construct a computational model for predicting influenza incidence. We built …

Abstract Analysis of public health's growing interest in “vulnerability” has largely focused on
health policy, with little interrogation of how vulnerability is being actively appropriated …

Background Historically, counting influenza recorded in administrative health outcome
databases has been considered insufficient to estimate influenza attributable morbidity and …