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CDC ESSENCE
CDC NSSP ESSENCE is a secure syndromic-surveillance analysis tool for emergency-department and related near-real-time public-health data streams.
Dataset summary
- Provider
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Syndromic Surveillance Program
- Spatial coverage
- US
- Temporal coverage
- Not documented
- Spatial resolution
- N/A
- Temporal resolution
- -----
- Formats
- Secure web platform
- Climate variable tags
- Not documented
- Observatory relevance
- North Carolina
Use guidance
- Best for
- Syndromic surveillance questions where authorized access and public-health governance are in place.
- Not best for
- Open public downloads or unguided individual-level analysis.
- Common pitfalls
- Assuming secure surveillance data are publicly downloadable.
- Ignoring jurisdictional data-sharing rules and syndrome definition choices.
Variables and notes
- Syndromic surveillance
Related learning resources
Use these guides to interpret the variable, scale, format, and workflow choices before using this dataset in a climate-health analysis.