Digital disease detection and participatory surveillance: overview and perspectives for Brazil

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Leal Neto, Onicio B ^a,b   Dimech, George S ^c   Libel, Marlo ^d   Oliveira, Wanderson ^e   Ferreira, Juliana Perazzo ^a,f  

^a Epitrack eHealth   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Secretaria de Saude do Estado de Pernambuco   (Brazil)

^d Skoll Global Threats Fund   (United States)

^e MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Information technology; Mobile applications; Public health surveillance; Science; Technology and society; Trends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY BASED SURVEILLANCE; CROWDSOURCING; DATA MINING; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MOBILE APPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRENDS;

BRAZIL; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 85021856828     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1518-8787.2016050006201     Document Type: Article

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