Detecting the visible: The discursive construction of health threats in a syndromic surveillance system design

Societies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 399-413

  Cakici, Baki ^a,b   Sanches, Pedro ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discourse; Epidemiology; ICT; Public health surveillance; Syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977942960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/soc4030399     Document Type: Article

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