Browsing by Subject "Epidemic"

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    Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus – The need for global proactive surveillance, sequencing and modeling
    (Elsevier, 2021) Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.; Petersen, Eskild; Memish, Ziad A.; Perlman, Stanley; Zumla, Alimuddin; Medicine, School of Medicine
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    Opioid Overdoses in Indiana: A Closer Look at Opioid Type
    (The Center for Health Policy, 2018-06-01) Kooreman, Harold
    The misuse of prescription and illicit opioids remains at epidemic proportions, costing the United States billions of dollars annually. Overdose deaths in both the U.S. and Indiana have seen a dramatic increase over the past ten years. Until recently, prescription opioids were responsible for the greatest number of overdose deaths, but now have been surpassed by fatalities involving heroin and illicitly manufactured narcotics, primarily fentanyl.
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    Visual Analytics for Data-Driven Understanding of the Substance Use Disorder Epidemic
    (Sage, 2024) Qaurooni, Danial; Herr, Bruce W., II; Zappone, Sarah Renee; Wojciechowska, Klaudia; Börner, Katy; Schleyer, Titus; Medicine, School of Medicine
    The substance use disorder epidemic has emerged as a serious public health crisis, presenting complex challenges. Visual analytics offers a unique approach to address this complexity and facilitate effective interventions. This paper details the development of an innovative visual analytics dashboard, aimed at enhancing our understanding of the substance use disorder epidemic. By employing record linkage techniques, we integrate diverse data sources to provide a comprehensive view of the epidemic. Adherence to responsive, open, and user-centered design principles ensures the dashboard's usefulness and usability. Our approach to data and design encourages collaboration among various stakeholders, including researchers, politicians, and healthcare practitioners. Through illustrative outputs, we demonstrate how the dashboard can deepen our understanding of the epidemic, support intervention strategies, and evaluate the effectiveness of implemented measures. The paper concludes with a discussion of the dashboard's use cases and limitations.