Tradeoffs driving policy and research decisions in biosurveillance

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 299-312

  Burkom, Howard S ^a,b   Loschen, Wayne A ^a   Mnatsakanyan, Zaruhi R ^c   Lombardo, Joseph S ^a  

^a APL ^*

^b International Society for Disease Surveillance

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(R ,S ,S) POLICY; ANALYSIS METHODS; BACKGROUND NOISES; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BIOTERRORISM (BT); DATA AGGREGATION; DATA LIMITATIONS; DEGREE OF AUTOMATION; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (MSS); VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA VISUALIZATION; HEALTH; MONITORING; PUBLIC POLICY; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

HEALTH RISKS;

EID: 45849135660     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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