Internet-based media coverage on dengue in Sri Lanka between 2007 and 2015

Global Health Action

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Wilder Smith, Annelies ^a,b,c   Cohn, Emily ^d   Lloyd, David C ^a   Tozan, Yesim ^c,e   Brownstein, John S ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness about dengue; Dengue; Emergence of dengue; Healthmap; Influenza; Internet; Malaria; Media; News coverage; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INTERNET; MALARIA; MASS MEDIUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SRI LANKA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MALARIA; MASS MEDIA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84969568058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v9.31620     Document Type: Article

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