Making Online Outbreak Surveillance Work for all

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 83, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 625-629

  Wang, Yanbai Andrea ^a   Barry, Michele ^b  

^a STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemics; event based internet surveillance; global health; health equity; infectious disease; surveillance; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL HEALTH; INFLUENZA A; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE MONITORING; SEARCH ENGINE; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB BROWSER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CANADA; ECONOMICS; EUROPE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIOSURVEILLANCE; CANADA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 85033468041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2017.09.002     Document Type: Editorial

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