Web-based infectious disease surveillance systems and public health perspectives: A systematic review

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Choi, Jihye ^a   Cho, Youngtae ^a   Shim, Eunyoung ^a,b   Woo, Hyekyung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Early detection; Epidemics; Outbreak; Real time; Surveillance systems; Web based

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEPSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SEPSIS;

EID: 85008684259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3893-0     Document Type: Review

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