Mobile Phones As Surveillance Tools: Implementing and Evaluating a Large-Scale Intersectoral Surveillance System for Rabies in Tanzania

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Mtema, Zacharia ^a,b,c   Changalucha, Joel ^a   Cleaveland, Sarah ^b   Elias, Martin ^d   Ferguson, Heather M ^a,b   Halliday, Jo E B ^b   Haydon, Daniel T ^b   Jaswant, Gurdeep ^e   Kazwala, Rudovick ^e   Killeen, Gerry F ^a,f   Lembo, Tiziana ^b   Lushasi, Kennedy ^a,b   Malishee, Alpha D ^a   Mancy, Rebecca ^b,c   Maziku, Matthew ^g,h   Mbunda, Eberhard M ^g   Mchau, Geofrey J M ^d   Murray Smith, Roderick ^c   Rysava, Kristyna ^b   Said, Khadija ^e   Sambo, Maganga ^a,b   Shayo, Elizabeth ^g   Sikana, Lwitiko ^a   Townsend, Sunny E ^b   Urassa, Honorathy ^a   Hampson, Katie ^a,b   more..

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Tanzania)

^e SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^f LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives   (Tanzania)

^h World Health Organisation United Republic of Tanzania   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOBILE PHONE; NOTE; RABIES; TANZANIA; BITES AND STINGS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNIZATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY;

RABIES VACCINE;

BITES AND STINGS; CELL PHONES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; TANZANIA; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

EID: 84964701735     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002002     Document Type: Note

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