Internet-based surveillance systems for monitoring emerging infectious diseases

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 160-168

  Milinovich, Gabriel J ^a   Williams, Gail M ^a   Clements, Archie C A ^a   Hu, Wenbiao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INTERNET; INTERNET BASED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEARCH ENGINE; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB BROWSER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DENGUE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SEARCH ENGINE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84892509071     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70244-5     Document Type: Review

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