Publications by authors named "Benita McKinney"
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- The Maricopa County Department of Public Health established a heat-associated mortality surveillance system in 2005 to analyze heat-related fatalities among residents and visitors in Maricopa County, Arizona.
- Between 2006 and 2016, the system recorded 920 heat-associated deaths, with a majority occurring outdoors and predominantly affecting males aged 20-49.
- The findings suggest that non-Arizona residents are significantly more vulnerable to outdoor heat-related deaths, indicating a need for targeted interventions to prevent such incidents, particularly for high-risk groups.
Super Bowl XLIX took place on February 1, 2015, in Glendale, Arizona. In preparation for this event and associated activities, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) developed methods for enhanced surveillance, situational awareness, and early detection of public health emergencies. Surveillance strategies implemented from January 22 to February 6, 2015, included enhanced surveillance alerts; animal disease surveillance; review of NFL clinic visits; syndromic surveillance for emergency room visits, urgent care facilities, and hotels; real-time onsite syndromic surveillance; all-hazards mortality surveillance; emergency medical services surveillance, review of poison control center reports; media surveillance; and aberration detection algorithms for notifiable diseases.
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