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ArticleCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2023

Event-based surveillance: Providing early warning for communicable disease threats.

Tenzin Norzin, Homeira Ghiasbeglou, Marcia Patricio, Svetlana Romanova, Abdelhamid Zaghlool, Florence Tanguay, Linlu Zhao

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Article in Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Assessing public health threats: An overview of coordinated threat assessment at the Public Health Agency of Canada.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Tenzin NorzinGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Homeira GhiasbeglouGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Marcia PatricioGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Svetlana RomanovaGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Abdelhamid ZaghloolGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Florence TanguayGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada.
Linlu ZhaoGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Management Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic served as a compelling modern-day reminder of the value of early warning against communicable disease threats in public health. As countries exit the acute phase of the pandemic, there remains a continued need to be vigilant for potential communicable disease threats, particularly as the risk of animal-to-human spillover events is increasing due to climate and land use change. Early warning of emerging threats facilitates earlier public health response, which affords more time to implement public health measures that can help minimize the impact of a particular health threat and protect the health and well-being of the population. One approach to providing early warning for communicable disease and other threats is through event-based surveillance (EBS). However, EBS is not often discussed in the context of public health surveillance. This overview introduces EBS and how it might contribute to providing early warning for communicable disease threats.

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event-based surveillanceindicator-based surveillancepandemic preparednesspublic health intelligence

Identifiers

PMID38090144
PMCPMC10712973

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