Digital methods in epidemiology can transform disease control
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Digital methods in epidemiology can transform disease control
Modern society has been transformed by the digital revolution through cellular phones for communication, remote sensing of weather and other terrestrial data, cheap and plentiful digital computation and data storage, genomic sequencing and analysis, GPS for geolocation and navigation, and many other marvels. These advances have been concurrent with major changes in the burden, dynamics and dist...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1876-3413,1876-3405
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihv013