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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4023.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| In this session, the learner will hear about methods for infectious disease surveillance. Examples will be food-borne diseases, West Nile virus and other arboviruses, and identifying potential disease clusters. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Describe the function of public health disease reporting systems 2. Identify deficiencies in knowledge and reporting of notifiable food-borne diseases in western North Carolina 3. Describe the racial/ethnic differences in influenza vaccination rates for the current season 4. To describe the components and methods of surveillance for West Nile Virus or any other arboviruses 5. Describe the components of a comprehensive data system that can be used to identify potential disease/illness clusters | |||
Evaluating Public Health Disease Reporting Systems in Health Departments ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} David Dausey, MPhil, PhD, Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, Alexis Diamond, MA | |||
| Knowledge and practice of foodborne disease clinical specimen testing and reporting in the healthcare community Pia D.M. MacDonald, PhD, MPH, Michelle R. Torok, MPH, Amy L. Nelson, PhD, MPH, Martha Salyers, MD, MPH | |||
| West Nile Virus animal surveillance activities in Dutchess County Lin-Li Chang, PhD, Erum Khan Hadi, BSc, MPH, Sabrina Jaar-Marzouka, JD, MPH | |||
| Comprehensive surveillance of reportable disease and general illness complaints Katie Fox, MS, Christopher M. Kippes, MS | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
| Endorsed by: | Statistics | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA