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. 2022 May 25:294:387-391.
doi: 10.3233/SHTI220480.

A Conceptual Framework for Representing Events Under Public Health Surveillance

Anya Okhmatovskaia  1 , Yannan Shen  1 , Iris Ganser  1   2 , Nigel Collier  3 , Nicholas B King  1 , Zaiqiao Meng  3 , David L Buckeridge  1
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A Conceptual Framework for Representing Events Under Public Health Surveillance

Anya Okhmatovskaia et al. Stud Health Technol Inform. .

Abstract

Information integration across multiple event-based surveillance (EBS) systems has been shown to improve global disease surveillance in experimental settings. In practice, however, integration does not occur due to the lack of a common conceptual framework for encoding data within EBS systems. We aim to address this gap by proposing a candidate conceptual framework for representing events and related concepts in the domain of public health surveillance.

Keywords: Event-based surveillance; conceptual modelling; outbreak detection.

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