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Digital disease detection - harnessing the Web for public health surveillance
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The Internet has become a critical medium for clinicians, public health practitioners, and laypeople seeking health information. Data about diseases and outbreaks are disseminated not only through online announcements by government agencies but also through informal channels, ranging from press reports to blogs to chat rooms to analyses of Web searches (see Digital Resources for Disease Detection). Collectively, these sources provide a view of global health that is fundamentally different from that yielded by the disease reporting of the traditional public health infrastructure.1 Digital Resources for Disease Detection.Sample Web-based data sourcesProMED-mail, www.promedmail.orgGlobal Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), . . .
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- Authors
- Brownstein, J. S., Freifeld, C. C., & Madoff, L. C.
- Affiliations
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2009-05-21
- Volume
- 360
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 2153-2157
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- PMC
- PMC2917042
- OpenAlex
- W2160542585
- Cited by
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- FWCI
- 18.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (G08LM009776)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Toxicology › Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
- Keywords
- disease surveillance, web-based surveillance, online health information, outbreak, internet search data, ProMED-mail
- MeSH terms
- Disease Outbreaks, Humans, Population Surveillance, Global Health, Information Storage and Retrieval, Internet, Communicable Diseases, Emerging
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