Pilot use of a novel smartphone application to track traveller health behaviour and collect infectious disease data during a mass gathering: Hajj pilgrimage 2014

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 147-155

  Alqahtani, Amani S ^a,b   BinDhim, Nasser F ^c   Tashani, Mohamed ^a   Willaby, Harold W ^a,b   Wiley, Kerrie E ^a,b   Heywood, Anita E ^d   Booy, Robert ^a,e   Rashid, Harunor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c SAUDI ELECTRONIC UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

App; Hajj; Infectious disease; Mass gathering; Smartphone; Traveller

Indexed keywords

MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMARTPHONE; SORE THROAT; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; ISLAM; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL RELATED DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; ISLAM; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SMARTPHONE; TRAVEL; TRAVEL-RELATED ILLNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940704368     PISSN: 22106006     EISSN: 22106014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jegh.2015.07.005     Document Type: Article

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