State and local public health surveillance needs to be strengthened.
The most promising applications of mHealth for now are public-health messaging, stitching together smart medical grids, extending the reach of scarce health workers and establishing surveillance networks for infectious diseases.
The agency and park public health officers routinely conduct rodent surveillance, and the park inspects buildings and facilities, it said.
With surveillance and public health awareness, Seva (which means "service" in Hindi) has, it says, cured blindness in 2 million people.
The HPA has put forward a range of recommendations to improve migrant health, including increased diseases surveillance, primary care support, such as language and cultural support, and raising awareness.
Health teams are carrying out "enhanced surveillance" in the villages and communities where bird flu cases have been reported, according to the World Health Organization.
For several decades, the United States and Brazil have participated in a bilateral dialogue to discuss medical research, disease surveillance, and improving public health.
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Former President Jimmy Carter negotiated a cease-fire in 1995 to allow health workers to conduct national Guinea worm disease surveillance, treating patients and tracking cases.
The first case of swine flu in the United States during the current outbreak was identified in San Diego County by part of a surveillance program connected with the Naval Health Research Center there, which only began monitoring influenza in 2005.
The health care market, as well as education and IP surveillance areas, are also big opportunities for Cisco's wireless business.
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President Bill Clinton's proposed network would create an electronic surveillance system that would link doctors, hospitals and health officials to alert them of outbreaks, according to a statement.
Bruno Petrucelli, director of epidemiology and disease surveillance for the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
To better understand the virus's spread and potential for human-to-human transmission, Chinese and World Health Organization officials said Wednesday in Beijing that they plan to boost surveillance and research on H7N9.
Chinese and World Health Organization officials said Wednesday in Beijing that they plan to boost surveillance and research on the H7N9 virus to understand its spread and potential for human-to-human transmission.
The Chinese government has increased disease surveillance, infection prevention and control and communication between human and animal health and industry sectors.
Wiznitzer notes that CDC surveillance that three-quarters of children with autism were diagnosed by their health care providers.
While the source of the virus remains unknown, further surveillance will help in understanding its transmission, said Liang Wannian, director general of the health emergency division of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Further surveillance will help in understanding the virus's transmission, said Liang Wannian, director general of the health emergency division of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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