Notifiable infectious disease surveillance with data collected by search engine

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science C

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 241-248

  Zhou, Xi Chuan ^a   Shen, Hai Bin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Notifiable infectious diseases; Search engine

Indexed keywords

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EARLY DETECTION; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FREQUENCY DATA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LEADTIME; LINEAR MODEL; NEWS ARTICLES; NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RAPID RESPONSE; ROBOT PROGRAMS; SEARCH QUERIES; SEARCH TERMS; TEMPORAL ASSOCIATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MONITORING; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 77951693078     PISSN: 18691951     EISSN: 1869196X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.C0910371     Document Type: Article

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