In the week 5 report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 10 of 14 schools report 1 or more influenza-like illness cases. One school in the Midwestern region had a percentage of cases that crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. At least one school in each region had a reported case. The graphic above shows ILI visits, both [...]
In the fourth weekly report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 10 of 15 schools report 1 or more influenza-like illness cases. One school in the Southern region has crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. At least one school in each region had a reported case. The graphic above shows ILI visits, both as an absolute [...]
In the third weekly report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 10 of 14 schools report 1 or more influenza-like illness cases. No school or region has crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. At least one school in each region had a reported case. The images above include the weekly graph showing ILI visits, [...]
In the second weekly report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 7 of 14 schools (50%) report minimal flu cases. No school or region has crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. Two schools, one in Florida, and one in New York, had reported positive flu tests confirming influenza on those [...]
In the first weekly report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 5 of 13 schools (39%) report minimal flu cases. No school or region has crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. Two schools, one in Florida, and one in New York, had reported positive flu tests confirming influenza on [...]
Specific diagnostic categories among categories of students We analyzed the frequency of the five most common diagnostic categories (Message 2) among categories of students and thought it might be interesting to highlight a few trends that emerged from the data. Rates are described numerically as annual rate per 100 enrolled students in a category, so [...]
Mental health related diagnoses were the fifth most common diagnostic category (103,844 patients) and had the highest overall number of visits per patient (4.93). The top 10 mental health diagnoses are rank ordered below. The average visits per patient varied from 2.01 for drug abuse and 3.66 for alcohol disorders to 6.51 for personality disorders [...]
Epidemiology: In 41 months, 802,255 patients had 4.17 Million visits to student health centers The average visits per patient is 5.20 The top 10 diagnostic categories for the 802,000 individuals seen over 41 months are rank ordered below. Since individuals can have more than one diagnosis, the total of percentages is greater than 100. Average [...]
The College Health Surveillance Network (CHSN) has been collecting medical data on college students since January 1, 2011. We wanted to share some highlights of the findings. Demographics: Currently 23 schools, representing 730,800 enrolled students,participate in CHSN. The demographics of the CHSN sample population closely match those of the 108 four year very high research [...]
