Disease Surveillance, a Public Health Priority

Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-39

  Lombardo, Joseph S ^a   Ross, David ^b  

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

^b Public Health Informatics Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Disease surveillance; Public health practice; Technological evolution; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889323956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470131886.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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