Determinants of participants' follow-up and characterization of representativeness in flu near you, a participatory disease surveillance system

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Baltrusaitis, Kristin ^a,b   Santillana, Mauricio ^a,c,d   Crawley, Adam W ^e   Chunara, Rumi ^f,g   Smolinski, Mark ^e   Brownstein, John S ^a,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Skoll Global Threats Fund   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Crowdsourcing; Digital disease detection; Human; Influenza; Public health informatics; Public health surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041028925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.7304     Document Type: Article

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