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Conference Paper: Electronic School Absenteeism System for multiple disease surveillance in Hong Kong
Title | Electronic School Absenteeism System for multiple disease surveillance in Hong Kong |
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Keywords | Medical sciences Communicable diseases |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | University of Illinois at Chicago. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/ojphi |
Citation | The 2013 Conference of the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), New Orleans, LA., 11-13 December 2013. In Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014, v. 16 n. 1 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Surveillance systems utilizing early indicator of disease activity would be useful for monitoring community disease pattern and facilitating timely decision making on public health interventions in an evidence-based manner. We explored the feasibility and practicability of establishing an electronic school absenteeism surveillance system in Hong Kong for monitoring influenza-like illness (ILI) and other emerging diseases, e.g. hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), using automatically captured data employing smart card technology. Preliminary data show that ILI-specific absenteeism rates reached their peaks 1-3 weeks ahead of the hospital laboratory surveillance data and HFMD-specific absenteeism rates were in phase with syndromic surveillance system from sentinel practitioners. |
Description | Conference Theme: Translating research and surveillance into action Poster presentation This journal issue entitled: Special Issue: Proceedings of the 2013 ISDS Conference Open Access Journal |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198886 |
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dc.contributor.author | Ip, D | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, EHY | - |
dc.contributor.author | So, THC | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ho, LM | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cowling, BJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leung, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-15T07:55:00Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-15T07:55:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2013 Conference of the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS), New Orleans, LA., 11-13 December 2013. In Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014, v. 16 n. 1 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1947-2579 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/198886 | - |
dc.description | Conference Theme: Translating research and surveillance into action | - |
dc.description | Poster presentation | - |
dc.description | This journal issue entitled: Special Issue: Proceedings of the 2013 ISDS Conference | - |
dc.description | Open Access Journal | - |
dc.description.abstract | Surveillance systems utilizing early indicator of disease activity would be useful for monitoring community disease pattern and facilitating timely decision making on public health interventions in an evidence-based manner. We explored the feasibility and practicability of establishing an electronic school absenteeism surveillance system in Hong Kong for monitoring influenza-like illness (ILI) and other emerging diseases, e.g. hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), using automatically captured data employing smart card technology. Preliminary data show that ILI-specific absenteeism rates reached their peaks 1-3 weeks ahead of the hospital laboratory surveillance data and HFMD-specific absenteeism rates were in phase with syndromic surveillance system from sentinel practitioners. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | University of Illinois at Chicago. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/ojphi | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Online Journal of Public Health Informatics | - |
dc.subject | Medical sciences | - |
dc.subject | Communicable diseases | - |
dc.title | Electronic School Absenteeism System for multiple disease surveillance in Hong Kong | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Ip, D: dkmip@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lau, EHY: ehylau@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | So, THC: haso9150@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ho, LM: lmho@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Cowling, BJ: bcowling@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Leung, G: gmleung@hku.hk | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5084 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 230326 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 16 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1947-2579 | - |