The Availability and Consistency of Dengue Surveillance Data Provided Online by the World Health Organization

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Ruberto, Irene ^a   Marques, Ernesto ^b   Burke, Donald S ^a   Van Panhuis, Willem G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORTALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DENGUE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84929483926     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003511     Document Type: Article

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