Sages: A suite of freely-available software tools for electronic disease surveillance in resource-limited settings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Lewis, Sheri L ^a   Feighner, Brian H ^a   Loschen, Wayne A ^a   Wojcik, Richard A ^a   Skora, Joseph F ^a   Coberly, Jacqueline S ^a   Blazes, David L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STIMULATION; SUITE FOR AUTOMATED GLOBAL ELECTRONIC BIOSURVEILLANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

SALVIA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955912318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019750     Document Type: Article

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