Public Health Surveillance
"Public Health Surveillance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data with the purpose of preventing or controlling disease or injury, or of identifying unusual events of public health importance, followed by the dissemination and use of information for public health action. (From Am J Prev Med 2011;41(6):636)
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D062486
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E05.318.308.980.438.700.324 N05.715.360.300.800.438.625.324 N06.850.520.308.980.438.700.324 N06.850.780.675.487
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| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2018 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 2019 | 2 | 9 | 11 | | 2020 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2021 | 2 | 9 | 11 | | 2024 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Public Health Surveillance" by people in Profiles.
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Grover EN, Hill AC, Kasarskis IM, Wu EJ, Alden NB, Cronquist AB, Weisbeck K, Herlihy R, Carlton EJ. Identifying real time surveillance indicators to estimate COVID-19 hospital admissions in Colorado during and after the public health emergency. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 01; 15(1):21614.
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Miller JI, Hassell KL, Kellar-Guenther Y, Quesada S, West R, Sontag M. The Prevalence of Sickle Cell Disease in Colorado and Methodologies of the Colorado Sickle Cell Data Collection Program: Public Health Surveillance Study. JMIR Public Health Surveill. 2024 Dec 09; 10:e64995.
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Arefin MR, Prouse C, Wittmer J, Amin N, Assunção M, Benezra A, Chaudhuri A, Diamond M, Harshe S, Hill-Tout K, Koetz V, Larsen D, Mansfeldt C, Melgaço L, Nainani D, Nair AV, Naughton CC, O'Donnell M, Reimer C, Robinson P, Shelley J, Srikantalah V. Making Waves: A justice-centred framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance. Water Res. 2025 Jan 01; 268(Pt B):122747.
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Tran AD, White AE, Jervis RH, Hewitson I, Scallan Walter EJ. Characteristics of People Who Do Not Complete a Public Health Interview: An Assessment of Colorado Enteric Disease Surveillance Data. Public Health Rep. 2025 Mar-Apr; 140(2-3):203-213.
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White AE, Jervis RH, Wilson E, Scallan Walter E. Improving occupational health surveillance for enteric infections. Zoonoses Public Health. 2024 06; 71(4):381-391.
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Simpson SA, Loh R, Elliott L, Everhart R, Bass C, Bol K, Boylls S, Podewils L. A Mortality Surveillance Collaboration Between a Health System and Public Health Department. Am J Public Health. 2023 09; 113(9):943-946.
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Hall JM, Falcon IZ, Elward AM, Daniels EA, Greene SE, Cabler SS, Reich PJ, Storch GA. Petting Zoos as an Unsuspected Source of Pediatric Infections. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 04 01; 42(4):346-349.
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Kline D, Hyder A, Liu E, Rayo M, Malloy S, Root E. A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Nowcasting Model for Public Health Decision-Making and Surveillance. Am J Epidemiol. 2022 05 20; 191(6):1107-1115.
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Goodrich JM, Calkins MM, Caban-Martinez AJ, Stueckle T, Grant C, Calafat AM, Nematollahi A, Jung AM, Graber JM, Jenkins T, Slitt AL, Dewald A, Cook Botelho J, Beitel S, Littau S, Gulotta J, Wallentine D, Hughes J, Popp C, Burgess JL. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, epigenetic age and DNA methylation: a cross-sectional study of firefighters. Epigenomics. 2021 10; 13(20):1619-1636.
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Klein NP, Lewis N, Goddard K, Fireman B, Zerbo O, Hanson KE, Donahue JG, Kharbanda EO, Naleway A, Nelson JC, Xu S, Yih WK, Glanz JM, Williams JTB, Hambidge SJ, Lewin BJ, Shimabukuro TT, DeStefano F, Weintraub ES. Surveillance for Adverse Events After COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination. JAMA. 2021 10 12; 326(14):1390-1399.
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