Assessing commitment and reporting fidelity to a text message-based participatory surveillance in rural Western Uganda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Lester, James ^a   Paige, Sarah ^b   Chapman, Colin A ^c,d   Gibson, Mhairi ^e   Jones, James Holland ^f   Switzer, William M ^g   Ting, Nelson ^h   Goldberg, Tony L ^b   Frost, Simon D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SYMPTOM; TEXT MESSAGING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UGANDA; ADOLESCENT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTOR; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CELL PHONES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION; TEXT MESSAGING; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 84976336875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155971     Document Type: Article

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