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Session: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
4127.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
This session focuses on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, which include water borne and other real-time disease surveillance, influenza, and non-bacterial diarrhea. There will also be a discussion of sharing information during a public health emergency.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Dicuss whether a provincial or territorial government can disclose personal information to another Canadian jurstiction's government without an individual's consent during a public health emergency 2. Describe different types of surveillance systems used to monitor for waterborne disease in a large metropolitan area 3. Describe how chief complaints and diagnosis codes are used to detect disease alert signals in the AHEDD syndromic surveillance system 4. Identify season trends in non-pandemic influenza 5. Describe possible modes of viral transmission and potential interventions to reduce the incidence of viral disease in out-of-home care
Moderator(s):Elquemedo Oscar Alleyne, MPH
12:30 PMInter-jurisdictional sharing of information during a Public Health Emergency: A Canadian perspective  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jean-Francois Luc
12:45 PMPublic health partnerships and disease surveillance with a large water utility: Waterborne disease surveillance by Massachusetts Water Resources Authority with state and city health departments  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joshua Das, MS, Barbara Bolstorff, MPH, Justin Pendarvis, MPH
1:00 PMReal-time surveillance: Cutting-edge technology in New Hampshire  [ Recorded presentation ]
Christine Adamski, MSN, Karla R. Armenti, ScD, David J. Swenson
1:15 PMAssociation of influenza seasonality with temperature and temperature-related indicators  [ Recorded presentation ]
Eric Lofgren, Nina Fefferman, Ph D, Jack Gorski, Pd D, Elena Naumova, PhD
1:30 PMIncidence and etiology of infectious non-bacterial diarrhea in out-of-home child care  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joan F. Walsh, PhD, Jonathan B. Kotch, MD, MPH, Jan Vinjé, PhD, David Weber, MD, MPH, Whitney Lyman, DVM, MPH, Patricia Isbell, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Epidemiology
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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