Division of Disease Control and Health Protection

Syndromic Surveillance

Syndromic surveillance has been defined as the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and application of real-time (or near-real-time) indicators of diseases and outbreaks that allow for their detection before public health authorities would otherwise note them. (CDC)

Syndromic Surveillance utilizes the detection of well-defined symptoms as an indicator of the possible presence of a public health problem.

ESSENCE-PC Training

The Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Environmental Public Health Medicine provides training on how to use the data from Florida's Poison Information Centers available in the ESSENCE system (ESSENCE-PC). The access to ESSENCE-PC is given upon successful completion of this training. Contact Chemical Disease Surveillance Program to learn more about ESSENCE-PC training and schedule.

For users who are new to the ESSENCE system please first review the trainings available at http://ncr6.jhuapl.edu/training/ (opens in new window). These video-based trainings will provide a general overview of how to navigate through the main parts of ESSENCE. For additional questions about how to access or use the ESSENCE system please contact Aaron Kite-Powell (pdf, opens in new window).

Resources/ Reports: (links open in a new window)

FPICN-           http://www.fpicn.org/
AAPCC-          http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Home.aspx
ESSENCE-     http://essence.jhuapl.edu/ESSENCE/

ESSENCE-PC Training Material
(all are pdfs, open in a new window and are <1mb):
To get the free Adobe Reader, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html (opens in new window)

ESSENCE Training-Agenda
Essence-CBERNE
ESSENCE-PC
ESSENCE-PC Data Dictionary
ESSENCE-Tips_H1N1
FPICN
FPICN data use agreement