[Iefac.list] IIE Transactions Special Issue on Health Surveillance

[jiangwei at sjtu.edu.cn]

Dear Sir/Madam,

Can you please post this CFP again?
Thank you very much.

Wei


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IIE Transactions Call for Papers
Special issue on “Public Health and Healthcare Surveillance and Response”
Guest Editors: Wei Jiang, Kwok-Leung Tsui, and Lianjie Shu
 
The objective of public health surveillance is to systematically collect, analyze, and interpret public health data (chronic or infectious diseases) in order to understand trends, detect changes in disease incidence and death rates, and plan, implement and evaluate public health practices. Numerous organizations such as CDC, WHO, etc. as well as private companies such as Google Inc. have collected and published health related data in a regular basis nowadays, especially during the period of H1N1 influenza in 2009-2010. Recently, studies have been conducted to develop methods and algorithms for health surveillance and disease outbreak detection based on these macro- and micro-level health datasets. It is well recognized that disease outbreaks or unanticipated healthcare inefficiency can be effectively mitigated or avoided by enacting effective healthcare standardization, quality management, and surveillance systems. As a result, the public health and healthcare system can be significantly improved through timely medical mitigation (such as vaccination or targeted groups for antiviral prescriptions), non-medical mitigation (such as school closings or quarantine), as well as other quality improvement strategies.
 
Two major tasks in public health surveillance are to quickly detect an adverse health event and to promptly respond to the event. The earlier an increase in the incidence rate can be detected, the earlier preventive actions can be taken before further severe health situations occur such as disease spreading or mutation. Therefore, quick detection and prevention are beneficial to both individuals and society. Moreover, once an adverse event has occurred, the public health and healthcare administrators should take advantage of the surveillance methods and other quantitative tools (such as simulation and optimization) to manage and respond to the outbreak or epidemic situations. To address these two issues, statistical methods for public health surveillance and responses have been widely studied. The central theme of this Special Issue is to understand the requirements and opportunities in healthcare and public health surveillance and to encourage the applications of statistical methods in complex healthcare systems. The purpose is to show the state-of-the-art research and applications in health surveillance and response by bringing together researchers from various research fields to address the significant advancement, expose the unsolved challenges, and provide visions for future research and development.
 
 
 
v       Subject Coverage
 
We are particularly interested in the research results in the following two categories: (i) temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal surveillance methodologies in public health; and (ii) applications of quantitative methodologies such as optimization, simulation, and quality control to healthcare and public health surveillance and response. Topics to be covered include, but not limited to the following:
 

·         Data collection systems in healthcare applications

·         Healthcare system modeling and forecasting including call centers

·         Time study in hospital management

·         Hospital workforce management

·         Emergency room management

·         Temporal surveillance methods in health care applications

·         Spatial surveillance methods for cluster detection in health care applications

·         Spatiotemporal surveillance methods for detecting emerging clusters

·         Disease-related research such as outbreak detection and disease risk estimation and monitoring

·         Performance merits for surveillance methods in healthcare applications

·         Healthcare response to disease outbreaks and pandemic

 

 

 

 
v       Notes for Intending Authors
 
All papers are to be submitted through http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iietransactions.  Please select “Special Issue” under Manuscript Category of your submission.  All manuscripts must be prepared according to the IIE Transactions publication guidelines.
 
v       Important Dates
 
·         December 1, 2011:       Intent to submit (optional)
·         March 1, 2012:     Paper submission deadline
·         September 1, 2012:     Completion of the first round review
·         January 1, 2013:   Completion of the second round review
·         March 1, 2013:     Final manuscripts due
·         September 1 2013:       Tentative publication date
 
v       Editor’s notes
 

You may communicate with any of the Guest Editors on any aspect of the Special Issue as follows:

 
Prof. Wei Jiang                
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China   
jiangwei at sjtu..edu.cn
 
Prof. Kwok-Leung Tsui          
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
ktsui at isye.gatech.edu

Prof. Lianjie Shu
University of Macau, Macau
ljshu at umac.mo