Increasing Mild Enterovirus Cases Provides An Important Signal of Up-coming Trends in Elevating Severe Enterovirus Cases

Authors

  • Ta-Chien Chan Center for GIS, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
  • Rung-Hung Chen Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
  • Chwan-Chuen King Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4397

Abstract

This study was to elucidate the spatio-temporal correlations between the mild and severe enterovirus cases through integrating enterovirus-related three surveillance systems, including the sentinel physician, national notifiable diseases and laboratory surveillance systems in Taiwan. With these fully understanding epidemiological characteristics, hopefuly, we can develop better measures and indicators from mild cases to provide early warning signals and thus minimizing subsequent numbers of severe cases. Taiwan‰Û ªs surveillance data indicate that public health professionals can monitor the trends in the numbers of mild EV cases in community to provide early warning signals for local residents to prevent the severity of future waves.

Author Biography

Ta-Chien Chan, Center for GIS, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica

Dr. Chan has had research experiences mainly in health informatics,health geographic information system (GIS) and infectious disease epidemiology. He graduated with a doctoral degree(Ph.D) from the Institute of epidemiology, National Taiwan University in 2010. During his doctoral progame, he was also working part-time at the National Health Research Institute (NHRI) and Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan for data analysis in health informatics, GIS applications to public health, surveillance of infectious diseases and environmental health. From February,2010 to July, 2012, he was working as full-time officer in Department of Health, Taiwan. Currently, he is a associate research fellow in academic sinica, Taiwan. The main study focuses of his recent research works were on understanding the climate effect on infectious disease and improving the surveillance methods/system in Taiwan.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Chan, T.-C., Chen, R.-H., & King, C.-C. (2013). Increasing Mild Enterovirus Cases Provides An Important Signal of Up-coming Trends in Elevating Severe Enterovirus Cases. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4397

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Poster Presentations