Ebola Outbreak Response: The Role of Information Resources and the National Library of Medicine

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 82-85

  Love, Cynthia B ^a   Arnesen, Stacey J ^a   Phillips, Steven J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; disease outbreaks; Internet; mass media; social media

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIBRARY; MEDLINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCIES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDLINE; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924425716     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.108     Document Type: Article

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