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Have smartphones and ubiquitous internet access affected sedentary time among children and adolescents?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

However, few countries have similar physical activity surveillance systems, and even fewer have data from before the 2007 advent of smartphones. Most current physical activity surveillance systems are therefore unlikely to fully capture real changes in human movement behaviour across the lifespan.

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Chagas Disease

Gideon

In 2007, two notable outbreaks occurred due to ingesting sources contaminated with T. Recently, a new surveillance system has been implemented in some countries where malaria is also endemic; microscopy technicians have been trained to identify T. In Europe, the prevalence of T. cruzi in malaria films (18).

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Managed Care History Part II- HMOs Give Way to Managed Care “Lite”

The Health Care Blog

United then bought Sierra Health Plan based in Nevada in 2007, including its large captive medical group, its first medical group acquisition. Stay tuned for Part III of this Managed Care History where we focus on the transformation of managed care into a machine and algorithm driven surveillance system for physicians and hospitals.