Novel public health risk assessment process developed to support syndromic surveillance for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games | Zendy

Gillian Smith | Zendy; Alex J. Elliot | Zendy; Sue Ibbotson | Zendy; Roger Morbey | Zendy; Obaghe Edeghere | Zendy; Jeremy Hawker | Zendy; Mike Catchpole | Zendy; Tina Endericks | Zendy; Paul Fisher | Zendy; Brian McCloskey | Zendy

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Novel public health risk assessment process developed to support syndromic surveillance for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Author(s) -

Gillian Smith,

Alex J. Elliot,

Sue Ibbotson,

Roger Morbey,

Obaghe Edeghere,

Jeremy Hawker,

Mike Catchpole,

Tina Endericks,

Paul Fisher,

Brian McCloskey

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdw054

Subject(s) - prioritization , public health , process (computing) , risk assessment , public health surveillance , alarm , warning system , medical emergency , mass gathering , environmental health , mass casualty incident , medicine , computer security , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , poison control , business , suicide prevention , engineering , process management , nursing , telecommunications , aerospace engineering , operating system

Syndromic surveillance aims to provide early warning and real time estimates of the extent of incidents; and reassurance about lack of impact of mass gatherings. We describe a novel public health risk assessment process to ensure those leading the response to the 2012 Olympic Games were alerted to unusual activity that was of potential public health importance, and not inundated with multiple statistical 'alarms'.

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