Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social …
Interest in real-time syndromic surveillance based on social media data has greatly increased in recent years. The ability to detect disease outbreaks earlier than traditional …
This paper offers an approach for governments to harness the information contained in social media in order to make public inspections and disclosure more efficient. As a case …
RA Oldroyd, MA Morris, M Birkin - JMIR public health and …, 2018 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: Traditional methods of monitoring foodborne illness are associated with problems of untimeliness and underreporting. In recent years, alternative data sources such …
Container ports are generally measured and compared using performance indicators such as container throughput and facility productivity. Being able to measure the performance of …
JK Harris, R Mansour, B Choucair, J Olson… - MMWR Morb Mortal …, 2014 - cdc.gov
An estimated 55 million to 105 million persons in the United States experience acute gastroenteritis caused by foodborne illness each year, resulting in costs of $2–$4 billion …
Foodborne illness afflicts 48 million people annually in the US alone. Over 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die from the infection. While preventable with proper food safety …
Objective Traditional surveillance systems capture only a fraction of the estimated 48 million yearly cases of foodborne illness in the United States. We assessed whether foodservice …