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Understanding Dengue Underreporting: An Analysis of the Impacts for the World, Latin America and Brazil
Published 2025-01-01“…Inclusion criteria focused on studies related to dengue surveillance, underreporting, health information systems, and notification policies. …”Notifiable diseases are legally designated due to their epidemic potential, requiring mandatory reporting by healthcare professionals to support public health surveillance and control. This narrative review analyzes weaknesses in the compulsory notification process, with emphasis on dengue, revealin...
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Suffering in Silence: Reasons Why Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education Institutions Choose Not to Report Their Victimization
Published 2025-05-01Subjects: Get full textThe underreporting of gender-based violence (GBV) in institutions of higher learning can be attributed to a range of causes and has an impact on students’ physical and mental health. Institutions of higher learning have made efforts to eradicate the problem, yet incidences are still on the rise, cal...
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The puzzle of the missing meat: Food away from home and China's meat statistics
Published 2015-06-01Subjects: Get full textFrom 1985, an increasing gap has emerged between the official statistical measures of meat production and meat consumption in China, which has raised concerns from many researchers using such data. In this paper we report the results of 428 observations (survey of 107 urban and rural households×4 qu...
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Incorporating Machine Learning in Capture-Recapture Estimation of Survey Measurement Error
Published 2024-08-01Subjects: Get full textCapture-recapture (CRC) is currently considered a promising method to use non-probability samples to estimate survey measurement error. In previous studies, we derived adjusted survey estimates using CRC by combining probability-based survey data (as the initial data source) and non-probability roa...
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Use of expansion factors to estimate the burden of dengue in Southeast Asia: a systematic analysis.
Published 2013-01-01“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Studies that make no adjustment for underreporting would seriously understate the burden and cost of dengue in SEA and elsewhere. …”<h4>Background</h4>Dengue virus infection is the most common arthropod-borne disease of humans and its geographical range and infection rates are increasing. Health policy decisions require information about the disease burden, but surveillance systems usually underreport the total numbe...
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Prevalence of cleft lip and palate in Brazil and its notification in the information system
Published 2024-06-01“…Conclusion: Although SINASC is an important tool, the significant underreporting of this condition impacts public policies, as it uses data inconsistent with reality. …”Introduction: Cleft lip and palate is the most common congenital deformity, with an incidence of 1.53/1000 live births, and treatment is predominantly carried out in the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde SUS). In 1999, the Live Birth Information System (Sistema de Informações sobre Nasci...
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Estimating the incidence of dengue in international air travelers from non-endemic countries between 2010-2019.
Published 2025-07-01“…Existing surveillance in non-endemic countries captures only a fraction of symptomatic cases in returning travelers due to underreporting. Therefore, we used mathematical modeling approaches to account for underreporting and estimate the number of dengue cases occurring during international travel.…”<h4>Background</h4>There have been increasing numbers of travel-associated dengue cases reported but the true burden is unclear. Existing surveillance in non-endemic countries captures only a fraction of symptomatic cases in returning travelers due to underreporting. Therefore, we used m...
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Mpox Outbreak: A Call for Urgent Action and Improved Response Strategies
Published 2025-07-01“…Inadequate surveillance and underreporting, particularly in low‐resource settings, obscure the true extent of the outbreak. …”ABSTRACT Introduction The resurgence of mpox presents a significant global public health challenge, especially in non‐endemic regions. Following its initial global spread in 2022, the current outbreak is driven by a newly emerged Clade I, exhibiting atypical clinical manifestations and altered trans...
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Reported radiation overexposure accidents worldwide, 1980-2013: a systematic review.
Published 2015-01-01“…<h4>Background</h4>Radiation overexposure accidents are rare but can have severe long-term health consequences. Although underreporting can be an issue, some extensive literature reviews of reported radiation overexposures have been performed and constitute a sound basis for conclusions on general trends. …”<h4>Background</h4>Radiation overexposure accidents are rare but can have severe long-term health consequences. Although underreporting can be an issue, some extensive literature reviews of reported radiation overexposures have been performed and constitute a sound basis for conclusions...
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Reporting of Adverse Events in Published and Unpublished Studies of Health Care Interventions: A Systematic Review.
Published 2016-09-01“…<h4>Background</h4>We performed a systematic review to assess whether we can quantify the underreporting of adverse events (AEs) in the published medical literature documenting the results of clinical trials as compared with other nonpublished sources, and whether we can measure the impact this underreporting has on systematic reviews of adverse events.…”<h4>Background</h4>We performed a systematic review to assess whether we can quantify the underreporting of adverse events (AEs) in the published medical literature documenting the results of clinical trials as compared with other nonpublished sources, and whether we can measure the impa...
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Spontaneous Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting of Congenital Malformations: A Danish National Register Study
Published 2025-06-01“…Public health organizations maintain registers to centralize and evaluate adverse drug reactions (ADR). However, underreporting in these registries can obscure the signals of drug-related congenital malformations. …”<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Maternal use of medication during pregnancy may have teratogenic effects, as seen with drugs like thalidomide, valproate, and phenytoin. Despite rigorous testing, both new and established drugs still pose a risk of teratogenesis, particularly if the teratoge...
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Violence Against Healthcare Workers by Mentally Ill Patients: Impact on Staff in Dementia Wards at Julian Hospital, Norwich
Published 2025-06-01“…Addressing the global issue of underreporting violence against healthcare staff, the study seeks to raise awareness, promote safety, and advocate for stronger preventative measures.…”Aims: This study aims to explore the risk factors, impact, and support systems related to violence against healthcare staff by mentally ill patients. It examines the psychological, physical, and professional effects on staff, while assessing the effectiveness of current reporting mechanisms. Address...
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Diagnostic utility of real-time RT-PCR for chikungunya virus detection in the acute phase of infection: a retrospective study
Published 2025-12-01“…Not performing laboratory tests to screen for chikungunya-specific nucleic acid or antigen may result in underreporting of chikungunya cases, thereby impacting effective control measures and management of cases.…”Background Chikungunya fever is a viral disease spread by Aedes mosquitoes, reported in over 110 countries. In India, it was first detected in Kolkata in 1963 and is now widespread. Diagnosis often relies on detecting anti-chikungunya IgM antibodies, but these may not be present during the acute pha...
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Obstetric violence: reflection on reporting to achieve sustainable development goals
Published 2025-07-01“…Final Considerations: underreporting cases of obstetric violence negatively compromises the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals - specifically with regard to goal 5 “Gender Equality” and goals 3 “Health and Well-being” and 10 “Reduced Inequalities”, but it is possible to report. …”ABSTRACT Objectives: to explain obstetric violence, its consequences, and the importance of mandatory reporting to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Methods: a reflective study based on references and the researchers’ expertise on the subject. Results: the first part of the results prese...
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Diagnostic challenges of brucellosis in humans and livestock in Tanzania: A thematic review
Published 2023-01-01“…To quantify the factors related to underreporting and those associated with the challenges in the diagnosis of brucellosis in Tanzania, search terms including “Brucella” “diagnosis” and “challenges” were used to query in Google search engine and publisher databases such as MEDLINE, PUBMED, NCBI, Springer, Hindawi, and Elsevier. …”Abstract Brucellosis is an endemic bacterial zoonosis in Tanzania, and is among the most prioritized zoonotic diseases in the country. Brucellosis affects public health and livestock production in developing countries. Most human and livestock cases are not detected by the existing surveillance syst...
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Clitoral Epidermal Inclusion Cyst Following Type 2 Female Genital Mutilation
Published 2025-07-01“…Despite the high prevalence (15%) of FGM in Kenya, there has not been a single reported case of clitoral cyst in the country, which could point to underreporting and the need for increased awareness.…”Summary:. Epidermal inclusion cysts of the clitoris occur as a sequelae of female genital mutilation (FGM) due to implantation of epidermal components into the dermis. A slowly enlarging and painless mass on the genital region with associated discomfort is the most common presentation of clitoral cy...
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ANALYSIS OF UROLOGICAL MORBIDITY IN THE ADULT POPULATION MOSCOW FOR THE YEARS 2006-2015
Published 2017-06-01“…However, this trend in the incidence of urinary tract does not match the results of special epidemiological studies and may be due to underreporting of these diseases and the low level of diagnosis. …”The article, based on the materials of the official statistical reporting for 2006-2015, analyzed the trends of the urological diseases of the adult population of Moscow, compared with the Russian Federation. It is established, diseases of the genitourinary system (GUS) consistently occupy the third...
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Case Report: Congenital candidemia due to non-albicans Candida species–A report of two cases and literature review
Published 2025-07-01“…Congenital candidiasis caused by non-albicans Candida (NAC) species represents a life-threatening condition with significant underreporting in clinical literature. It mainly manifests as systemic invasive candidiasis. …”Congenital candidiasis caused by non-albicans Candida (NAC) species represents a life-threatening condition with significant underreporting in clinical literature. It mainly manifests as systemic invasive candidiasis. Premature infants are affected more easily due to the immaturity of their immune s...
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Analysing the effectiveness of unsignalized crossing infrastructure in improving pedestrian safety using multiple data-driven approaches
Published 2025-07-01“…Despite challenges like underreporting and data imputation biases, this study provides valuable insights into the role of infrastructure in pedestrian safety, offering a foundation for policy recommendations and future research on improving unsignalized crossing designs.…”This study investigates the effectiveness of unsignalized crossings to enhance pedestrian safety through a robust data-driven approach utilizing multiple machine learning models, including the statistical classifier Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Neural Network Multi-Layer Pe...
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Narrative Unreliability as a Literary Device and Reception Shift
Published 2019-06-01“…In his unreliable narratives, the complementarities of misreporting, misinterpreting, underreporting and misevaluating are traced. Narrative unreliability in the novel serves as a kind of disguise for the mental aberrations of the homodiegetic narrator, so that the peculiarities of his narration cause doubts about his adequacy, freeing the reader from his influence and making it possible to create various interpretations of the story. …”The primary aim of the article is to gain a better understanding of narrative unreliability as a literary device in reception perspective. While previous studies have focused mainly on textual incongruities, argued for an encoded strategy on the part of the implied author or have embraced a reader-...
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