I get lots of strange email updates these days. Here is one about new publications from the National Academy, that may be of interest: Capturing Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures in Electronic Health Records.
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Natl Academy Press: Capturing Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures in Electronic Health Records
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Making the case with years not deaths
A report on Suicide Prevention crossed my desk recently, which includes a ranking in terms of deaths and in terms of years of life lost:
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Social pathways of EVD spread
Some of the most interesting stuff that has crossed my desk on the spread of Ebola codes from the anthropologists who have been working in West Africa for a long time:
http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/590-village-funerals-and-the-spread-of-ebola-virus-disease
http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2014/10/31/social-pathways-ebola-virus-disease-rural-sierra-leone-implications-containment/
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Exemplar Public Health Datasets
Here is an interesting resource to watch: The Exemplar Public Health Datasets Collection in Open Health Data. Large longitudinal cohorts for secondary data analysis, anyone?
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IHME Seminar: Environmental Indicators
On Oct 15, we had a seminar from Yale Professor Angel Hsu on her work developing indicators for country performance on environmental sustainability. I found it surprisingly positive, for example this score card for the United States that says almost everything is getting better or at least staying the same:
This seems to conflict with the EPA report that came out recently and reminded me to write this.
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World Bank Estimates the Cost of Contact Tracing in Ebola Response
I want to save a bookmark to this little table in a big report on the economic impacts of Ebola in West Africa: World Bank country offices in Nigeria and Senegal produced estimates of the cost of successfully tracing contacts when responding to imported cases. Expensive, but worth it!
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CVRS in 2010 Report
Perhaps more than I ever wanted to know about the state of the birth and death registration system in South Africa circa 2010: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/CRVS/Technical%20report%20SADC%20final%20v2.pdf
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Tools They Use
I’m always on the lookout for new tools that I should be using in my daily work. Here is a short write-up by #hackebola researcher Caitlin Rivers on the subject: http://www.caitlinrivers.com/blog/the-setup-tools-i-use-to-track-emerging-infectious-diseases
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Les Roberts blogs from Sierra Leone
A few links to Les Roberts blogging from Sierra Leone:
Les Roberts – “Day 10: Leaving Columbia to be at peace with Columbia”
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Digging into the GBD 2010 Risk Factors II
A follow-up on my recent adventure digging into the GBD 2010 risk factors, wherein I helped a fellow researcher find the specific diseases to which the risk factor DALYs are attributed (http://ihmeuw.org/2c6v ):
I helped find where to look at the risk factor attribution, but what if you want to download the numbers? The “download chart data as CSV” link gives you something, but it is not the risk factors, it is just the disease fractions of total DALYs:
Fortunately, a javascript guru with a few minute told me the incantation to get the risk factor fractions out, recorded here for posterity:
$.fileDownload(app.settings.baseURL+'php/risk_data.php',{ httpMethod: "POST", data:{ measure: app.getMeasure(1, 'percent'), sex: app.getSex(1), age: app.getAge(1), year: app.getYear(1), location: app.getLocation(1), cause: d3.keys(app.metadata.causes), risk: app.getRisk(1), format: 'csv', title: app.charts[1].getTitle(), } });
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Healthy Algorithms 