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- CSTE Special Report: The Workforce Development Initiative.
In January 2007, CSTE hosted its second Workforce Summit to address issues affecting public health epidemiologists. Leaders in applied epidemiology-including CSTE Past Presidents, current Executive Committee members...
- Essential Functions of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
In order to monitor chronic diseases and administer prevention and control programs, the Institute of Medicine recommended in 1988 that state health departments “regularly and systematically...
- National Assessment of Epidemiologic Capacity in Chronic Disease: Findings and Recommendations
As a result of the public health importance of chronic diseases and the availability of effective prevention and control strategies2-6, over the past 15 years federal, state, and local public health agencies have...
- CSTE's Report: A National Assessment of the Status of Planning for Public Health Preparedness for Chemical and Radiological Contaminating Terrorism.
CSTE, in partnership with federal agency representives, industry professionals and academic experts, developed the assessment tool, which was distributed to representatives from all states,...
- CDC-CSTE Intergovernmental Data Release Guidelines Working Group (DRGWG) Report
States have a long-standing history of voluntarily reporting individually identifiable data to CDC on incident conditions or diseases that are of public health importance . Recent developments in telecommunications and computerization have greatly enhanced the ability to compile and share such public health data. While the electronic exchange and accumulation of data on individual cases promises public health benefits, it has the potential to threaten individual privacy...
- Enteric Disease Timeline Study
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) conducted this project with support from its cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center...
- Survey of Infectious Disease Case Reporting Practices in Tribally-Operated and Urban Indian Health Facilities
Changes in the administration and delivery of health services to American Indians/ Alaska Natives have led to concerns about the completeness of public health surveillance for this population...
- HIV/AIDS, STD, TB, and Hepatitis B and C Case Reporting Practices of Tribally Operated Health Facilities
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people are affected disprportionately by many infectious diseases, including immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) ...
- Report on Public Health Practice vs. Research
The purpose of this report is to provide a practical guide principally for state and local public health officials, their staff, and their partners on the distinctions between public health practice and research...
- 2004 National Assessment of Epidemiologic Capacity: Findings and Recommendations
In 1988, and again in 2002, the Institute of Medicine recommended that every health department should regularly and systematically collect, assemble, analyze and make available information on the health of the community, including statistics on health status, community health needs, and epidemiologic and other...
- CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program
This report was prepared by Kristine A. Moore, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Center for Infectious Disease research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, working under an agreement between CSTE and the University of Minnesota. This project was funded through the Cooperative Agreement (U60/CCU007277-12) between CSTE and CDC...
- CSTE Special Report: Workforce Development Initiative
A National Assessment of Epidemiologic Capacity conducted by CSTE in 2002 identified gaps in the applied epidemiology workforce and revealed training needs of existing epidemiology staff. Through facilitated discussion and concurrent breakout groups...
- The Role of the States in a Nationwide, Comprehensive Surveillance System for
Work-Related Diseases,
Injuries, and Hazards
Surveillance is vital to the prevention of occupational diseases, injuries, and fatalities. It provides information necessary to document the magnitude of workplace health and safety problems, to set research priorities, and to target and evaluate interventions to improve worker safety and health. While there have been...
- State Injury Indicators
CDC, CSTE and STIPDA are pleased to bring you the first. The data inside—provided by 12 state health departments that
voluntarily participated in a new surveillance effort—represent an important step
toward routine surveillance and reporting of injury indicators in all states. The
indicators were calculated by using state-level data from death certificates and
hospital discharge records and data from several national surveillance systems. As
more states join in this surveillance, we can present a broader picture of the
burden of injuries and better identify priorities for prevention.We look forward to
increased state participation in future reports...
- NEDSS Implementation Guide
This document is targeted to program managers and surveillance staff in state health agencies who are involved in
the implementation of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS). The target audience
includes epidemiologists and other professional staff with varying degrees of computer knowledge and skills. The
goals of the document are...
- Epidemiology Capacity Assessment 2003
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) conducted this assessment with
support from its cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Epidemiology Capacity Assessment workgroup CSTE accomplished this project with
cooperation from the state health departments, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Indian Health Service (IHS),
Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO), Association of Schools of Public
Health (ASPH), and American Public Health Association (APHA)...
- MCH Final Report (2002)
Over the past century, state public health agencies have developed their epidemiological
abilities to address the public health issues defined by the Institute of Medicine. These
abilities have broadened as the focus of public health agencies has shifted from solely
infectious diseases to chronic diseases, maternal and child health (MCH), and other
issues. Starting in 1997, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)
developed modules to assess state and territorial health agency epidemiology and data
capacity...
- Food Safety Final Report (2002)
A long-standing goal of both CDC and CSTE has been to build state epidemiology
capacity for the detection and prevention of foodborne illness. In 1997, CDC convened
an expert panel to draft core competencies report for foodborne outbreak and response,
focusing on epidemiologic and laboratory capacity. The panel’s report was entitled
Essential Epidemiology and Laboratory Components of a State Foodborne Disease
Prevention and Control Program2, As a follow-up to these activities, in 1999 CDC
funded CSTE and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) to conduct
assessments of states’ foodborne investigation capacity with the goal of providing...
- Chronic Disease Indicators
This interactive web site provides access to definitions and data for the Chronic Disease Indicators. As a comprehensive and recommended set of measures, CDI is a public health initiative intended to increase the consistency and availability of chronic disease surveillance data at the state and federal levels. Epidemiologists and other public health professionals can use these materials to enhance surveillance, generate hypotheses, and serve as reference material as they develop...
- Blueprint for Surveillance
This article lays out a blueprint for public health surveillance and assessment for the year 2000 and
beyond. The blueprint defines the roles of local, state, and national public health agencies and partners in
the medical care system in conducting surveillance and assessment activities. It proposes a new overarching
National Public Health Surveillance System to be the conceptual framework for all public health
surveillance and assessment activities into the 21st century...
- Hepatitis Survey Results
conceived as part of the cooperative agreement between CSTE and CDC, baseline to determine activities of states with respect to Hepatitis Prevention and Control Issues information will be used to develop small grants for hepatitis planning developed by the CSTE Hepatitis Workgroup of the Infectious Disease Committee under the direction of Steven Wiersma MD, MPH...
- Epi Capacity in SHD Cancer Programs
In 1988, the Institute of Medicine recommended that every health agency “regularly and
systematically collect, assemble, analyze, and make available information on the health
of the community, including statistics on health status, community health needs, and
epidemiologic and other studies of health problems. Health agencies have effectively
executed these functions to address infectious disease. However, with the shift to chronic
disease as the primary cause of morbidity and mortality, health agencies need to re-direct
their efforts to develop epidemiologic capacity to support chronic disease programs...
- 1997 Epi Capacity Assessment
An assessment of epidemiologic capacity identifies the specific demonstrated abilities of the
organization. The primary purpose is to enable the agency to detennine whether its current
capacity is sufficient to its expected needs. If the agency detennines it needs additional capacity,
then the assessment information will provide a sound basis for developing it.
- 1997 Epi Capacity Report
From January 1995 to August 1997, a guide to assessing the epidemiologic capacity of state public health agencies was developed. Its purpose is to enable individual states to systematically self-assess their capacity in the three functional areas of epidemioplogy established by CSTE as the responsibility of state health agencies...
- Biohazard Detection System for Anthrax (Updated on 8/4/2004) The following files were created or compiled by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) in preperation fo implementation of the Biohazard Detection System (BDS)...
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