A 21st century approach to tackling dengue: Crowdsourced surveillance, predictive mapping and tailored communication

Acta Tropica

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 100-107

  Lwin, May O ^a   Vijaykumar, Santosh ^a   Fernando, Owen Noel Newton ^a   Cheong, Siew Ann ^b   Rathnayake, Vajira Sampath ^a   Lim, Gentatsu ^a   Theng, Yin Leng ^a   Chaudhuri, Subhasis ^c   Foo, Schubert ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; Dengue; Health communication; MHealth; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENGUE; EPIDEMIC; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOBILE PHONE; MOSQUITO BITE; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SRI LANKA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES;

SRI LANKA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84889656934     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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