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OxfordIHTM / codeditr

Implementing Cause-of-Death Data Checks Based on World Health Organization's CoDEdit Tool
http://oxford-ihtm.io/codeditr/
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Notifiable diseases #8

Open ernestguevarra opened 6 months ago

ernestguevarra commented 6 months ago

not sure that we really need this from a quality check perspective but if our goal is high fidelity in porting the CoDEdit software, we should take this into account.

ernestguevarra commented 4 months ago

The World Health Organization's International Health Regulations 1969 require disease reporting to the organization in order to help with its global surveillance and advisory role. The current (1969) regulations are rather limited with a focus on reporting of three main diseases: cholera, yellow fever and plague.[1] Smallpox was a contagious disease during the 18th-20th century. It was endemic until mass vaccination, after which WHO certified Smallpox to be eradicated. This marked the first (and thus far only) human disease to be successfully eradicated.