scholarly journals A Decade of Public Health Genomics in the United States: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1997–2007

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Khoury ◽  
S. Bowen ◽  
L.A. Bradley ◽  
R. Coates ◽  
N.F. Dowling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Genomics ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Centers For Disease Control

Hitch a Sugar to a Protein

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-222
Author(s):  
Janet R. Gilsdorf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Bacterial Meningitis ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indian Children ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Centers For Disease Control ◽  
American Children ◽  
Native Alaskan

The success of the conjugate Hib vaccines has been spectacular. Prior to their introduction, an estimated 10,000 cases of Hib meningitis occurred annually in the United States, which was approximately 1 in 300 children. It was even higher among native Alaskan and American Indian children. Since the widespread use of the vaccine, the disease has nearly disappeared in the United States, with only 40 cases in children under age 5 years reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014. Thus, bacterial meningitis, once a scourge that killed and damaged too many American children is, for the most part, now a bad memory.

Individuals With Disabilities Who Have Diabetes: Do We Have Targeted Interventions?

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
DeLawnia Comer-HaGans ◽  
Shamly Austin ◽  
Zo Ramamonjiarivelo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individuals With Disabilities ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Centers For Disease Control

Abstract According to 2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. It is assumed that various diabetes interventions are available to help individuals manage this chronic disease, but that is not the case. The literature is scant regarding interventions focused on people with disabilities who have diabetes. The purpose of this article is to review interventions specifically focused on people with disabilities who have diabetes and to discuss the effect of these interventions on this population.

scholarly journals CDC releases interim smallpox response plan and guidelines

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Harling
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mass Vaccination ◽  
Ring Vaccination ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Deliberate Release ◽  
Response Plan ◽  
Centers For Disease Control ◽  
Spread Of Infection

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States (US) last week released its plans to cope with a deliberate release of smallpox (1). The plan centres on rapid ring vaccination of the contacts of infected individuals to contain the spread of infection. Mass vaccination in advance of an outbreak will not be used, partly because the risks associated with vaccination outweigh the risks of exposure to smallpox.

scholarly journals Understanding the Public Discussion About the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Twitter Data: Text Mining Analysis Study

10.2196/25108 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. e25108
Author(s):  
Joanne Chen Lyu ◽  
Garving K Luli
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Centers For Disease Control

Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a national public health protection agency in the United States. With the escalating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on society in the United States and around the world, the CDC has become one of the focal points of public discussion. Objective This study aims to identify the topics and their overarching themes emerging from the public COVID-19-related discussion about the CDC on Twitter and to further provide insight into public's concerns, focus of attention, perception of the CDC's current performance, and expectations from the CDC. Methods Tweets were downloaded from a large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter data set from March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, to August 14, 2020. We used R (The R Foundation) to clean the tweets and retain tweets that contained any of five specific keywords—cdc, CDC, centers for disease control and prevention, CDCgov, and cdcgov—while eliminating all 91 tweets posted by the CDC itself. The final data set included in the analysis consisted of 290,764 unique tweets from 152,314 different users. We used R to perform the latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm for topic modeling. Results The Twitter data generated 16 topics that the public linked to the CDC when they talked about COVID-19. Among the topics, the most discussed was COVID-19 death counts, accounting for 12.16% (n=35,347) of the total 290,764 tweets in the analysis, followed by general opinions about the credibility of the CDC and other authorities and the CDC's COVID-19 guidelines, with over 20,000 tweets for each. The 16 topics fell into four overarching themes: knowing the virus and the situation, policy and government actions, response guidelines, and general opinion about credibility. Conclusions Social media platforms, such as Twitter, provide valuable databases for public opinion. In a protracted pandemic, such as COVID-19, quickly and efficiently identifying the topics within the public discussion on Twitter would help public health agencies improve the next-round communication with the public.

scholarly journals Using photos for public health communication: A computational analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Instagram photos and public responses

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 2159-2180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunhwan Kim ◽  
Jang Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Communication ◽  
Cognitive Services ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Centers For Disease Control ◽  
Human Faces

This study aims to explore the use of Instagram by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the representative public health authorities in the United States. For this aim, all of the photos uploaded on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Instagram account were crawled and the content of them were analyzed using Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. Also, engagement was measured by the sum of numbers of likes and comments to each photo, and sentiment analysis of comments was conducted. Results suggest that the photos that can be categorized into “text” and “people” took the largest share in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Instagram photos. And it was found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s major way of delivering messages on Instagram was to imprint key messages that call for actions for better health on photos and to provide the source of complementary information on text component of each post. It was also found that photos with more and bigger human faces had lower level of engagement than the others, and happiness and neutral emotions expressed on the faces in photos were negatively associated with engagement. The features whose high value would make the photos look splendid and gaudy were negatively correlated with engagement, but sharpness was positively correlated.

Toxic Chemicals AND OTHeR HAZARDS in the Home

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Landrigan ◽  
Mary M. Landrigan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Toxic Chemicals ◽  
Poison Control ◽  
Poison Control Centers ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Centers For Disease Control

Each year, poison-control centers across the country receive thousands of calls from frantic parents whose children have accidentally ingested toxic chemicals, prescription drugs, and even toxic houseplants. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every day 300 children across the United States are...

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