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Podcast: Jared Bullard - Congenital syphilis

Across Canada, syphilis continues to mostly affect men who have sex with men, but on the Prairies, rates are also high among heterosexual women. In this conversation, the last in a series produced by the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases in conjunction with the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health, we’ll hear from Dr. Jared Bullard, a paediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Manitoba who works primarily out of the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg. He’ll discuss recent increases in cases of congenital syphilis, the risks it poses to a foetus, as well as prevention strategies. He spoke with NCCID’s Jami Neufeld.

Read the full transcript on the NCCID web site

Behind the Curtain of Mathematical Modelling : Inside a collaborative modelling project on public health strategies for syphilis management

This case study describes the experiences of an interdisciplinary team associated with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA), the University of Toronto, and Harvard University who came together to apply mathematical modelling to assess the impact of a newly designed intervention to reduce the burden of syphilis in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Their story illustrates how mathematical modelling can provide timely evidence to guide decision-making by public health planners and practitioners throughout the implementation of a new intervention. The lessons they share may help to demystify modelling and reveal the benefits of collaborations between modellers and public health personnel.

Thinking about burden of disease with equity in mind

Standard burden of disease measures identify differences in disease patterns and trends for a population, but do not always look for differences within the population. We need a different approach to thinking about and measuring burden of disease—one that considers the social determinants of health and the effects of inequity.

Framing Burden: Towards a New Framework for Measuring Burden of Disease in Canada

This concept paper serves as a starting point for a critical examination of burden of disease, with the longer-term goal of developing a framework to guide transparent, fair, meaningful, and practical measures of burden.

Understanding Summary Measures Used to Estimate the Burden of Diseases: All About HALYs, DALYs and QALYs

Summary measures of the burden of disease in a population are popular and widely used, as they can simplify complex information about diseases, including risk factors, and the likelihood of resulting disability or other harm (morbidity), or death (mortality). This factsheet introduces the basic summary measures of burden of disease.