Nursing 3310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter week 12: Healthmap, Emerging Infectious Disease, Plos Medicine
12 Jan 2017
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Brownstein, j. s. , freifeld, c. c. , reis, b. y. , & mandl, k. d. (2008). Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence and the healthmap project. Developed countries already have and continue to improve on electronic disease surveillance, Surveillance sans fronti res while developing areas that are most vulnerable to more severe and numerous outbreaks still lack public health infrastructure. Existing surveillance has wide gaps geographically, and suffers from poor information flow across borders. Web-accessible sources (news outlets, discussion sites, etc. ) are free and valuable, and can facilitate early detection of outbreaks, but are subject to false reports and reporting bias. Healthmap is a free, real-time, automatic, electronic information system. Reports on new and ongoing infectious disease outbreaks since 2006. 20 000 users per month- resource for libraries, local health departments, governments, and multinational agencies (e. g. the un) It gathers information from 14 free news sources that represent thousands of websites.
