Demographic and health surveillance: longitudinal ethical considerations
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Demographic and health surveillance: longitudinal ethical considerations.
Longitudinal data gathered from health surveillance, when combined with detailed demographic information, can provide invaluable insight into disease outcomes. Many such surveillance sites exist in the developing world, particularly in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and focus on diseases such as HIV/AIDS, cholera, malaria and tuberculosis. The indistinct positions of such surveillance systems, of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.08.051037