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GIS-Related Sites
Regional Sites
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National/International Sites
- Bing Maps: Community Health Indicator
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - main site
- CDC: BioSense
- CDC: Epi-Info™: With CDC's Epi Info™ and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data. Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP. Epi Map displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info™.
- CDC: Epi-X: the CDC's Epidemic Information Exchange for public health professionals
- CDC: Health Alert Network
- CDC: National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS)
- CDC: Public Health Information Network (PHIN)
- Current Surveillance Systems: Early Detection & Rapid Notifications Surveillance Systems
- EU-OSHA: European Risk Observatory
- Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
- Google Flu Trends
- HealthMap
- US Department of Health & Human Services: National Center for Health Statistics: Health Indicators Warehouse
- Pan American Health Organization: This site covers diseases in the Americas.
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce (County, State and National Health Statistics)
- Public Health Informatics Institute
- TransStat
- World Health Organization (WHO) : This is the main site for the World Health Organization - international disease surveillance.
- Zyxware Technologies
Important Articles
- Arzt, N. H. (2010). Service-oriented architecture in public health. JHIM, 24.
- CDC grants aim at using RHIOs to share public health data. (2008, March 13). iHealthBeat:Policy.
- Davenhall, B. & ESRI. (2010). Geomedicine: Can geographic information make me healthy? [
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- Espino, J., Wagner, M., Szczepaniak, C., Tsui, H., Su, R., Olszewski, Z., …Dara, J. (2004, September 24). Removing a barrier to computer-based outbreak and disease surveillance –The RODS Open Source Project. MMWR, 53(Suppl): 32-39.
- Freifeld, C. C., Mandl, K. D., Reis, B. Y., & Brownstein, J. S. (2008). HealthMap: Global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of internet media reports. JAMIA, 15:150-157.
- Ginsberg, J., Mohebbi, M. H., Patel, R. S., Brammer, L., Smolinski, M. S., & Brilliant, L. (2009). Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data. Nature, 457:1012-1014. []
- Henning, K. J. (2004, September 24). Overview of syndromic surveillance: what is syndromic surveillance? MMWR, 53(Suppl);5-11.
- Hripcsak, G., Soulakis, N. D., Li, L., Morrison, F. P., Lai, A. M., Friedman, C., …Mostashari, F. (2009). Syndromic surveillance using ambulatory electronic health records. JAMIA, 16:354-361. [abstract]
- Loonsk, J. W., McGarvey, S. R., Conn, L. A., Johnson, J. (2006). The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Preparedness Initiative. JAIMA, 13:1-4. []
- Mostashari, F., Shapiro, J. S., Kuperman, G. Using Health Information Exchange to Improve Public Health
- South Dakota Department of Health. (2010). South Dakota Public Health Meaningful Use.[]
- Staes, C. (2010). Issues in Public Health Informatics. [PowerPoint]
- Yasnoff, W. A., O'Carroll, P. W., Koo, D., Linkins, R. W., & Kilbourne, E. M. (2000). Public health informatics: Improving and transforming public health in the information age. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. []
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