Mobile phone-based syndromic surveillance system, Papua New Guinea

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1811-1818

  Rosewell, Alexander ^a,b   Ropa, Berry ^c   Randall, Heather ^a   Dagina, Rosheila ^c   Hurim, Samuel ^c   Bieb, Sibauk ^c   Datta, Siddhartha ^a   Ramamurthy, Sundar ^d   Mola, Glen ^e   Zwi, Anthony B ^b   Ray, Pradeep ^b   MacIntyre, C Raina ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c National Department for Health   (Papua New Guinea)

^d Datanets   (Papua New Guinea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; CHOLERA; COST; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EARLY WARNING; EVALUATION; FRAGILE STATE; ICT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; M-HEALTH; MOBILE PHONE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE;

CELLULAR PHONE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84886999233     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1911.121843     Document Type: Article

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