Why we need crowdsourced data in infectious disease surveillance

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 316-319

  Chunara, Rumi ^a,b,d   Smolinski, Mark S ^c   Brownstein, John S ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Skoll Global Threats Fund   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Crowdsourcing; Surveillance; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROWDSOURCING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MOBILE PHONE; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84880811041     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-013-0341-5     Document Type: Article

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