But when surveillance mandarins from 15 nations gathered in Toronto, Ontario in the wake
of a pair of high-level United Nations conferences that tasked the community with …

This keynote address opens the Joint 9th WARFS Global Conference and 12th AMNET
Conference 2015. Ini ally a brief history of the WARFS conference, which began in 1999 in …

The term syndromic surveillance is used here somewhat as a catch-all for referring to new
surveillance system paradigms and should be interpreted broadly [MH03, Hen04] …

This chapter introduces a hierarchical modelling approach to biosecurity surveillance,
arguing that this provides a common structure for representing many different existing …

Previous chapters of this book have stressed the growing interest in continuously monitoring
and comparing distributions of health determinants across populations to better inform …

The now virtually global epidemiologic transition to chronic diseases (noninfectious
diseases) accounting for the majority of deaths has generated interest worldwide in …

Global behavioral risk factor surveillance Page 2 GLOBAL BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR
SURVEILLANCE Page 3 GLOBAL BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE Edited …

In the United States, data systems are created by the ongoing, systematic collection of
health, demographic, and other information through federally funded national surveys, vital …

We define public health surveillance as the systematic collection of health information for the
purposes of monitoring, preventing, or controlling the spread of disease in a population. The …