Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet

Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet.

Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks

0173 For disease outbreak detection, the public-health community has historically relied on the watchful eyes of doctors and other health-care workers, who have reported individual cases or clusters of cases of particular diseases to healthcare and other authorities. The increased availability of electronic health-care data, however, raises the possibility of more automated and earlier outbreak...

The emerging science of very early detection of disease outbreaks.

A surge of development of new public health surveillance systems designed to provide more timely detection of outbreaks suggests that public health has a new requirement: extreme timeliness of detection. The authors review previous work relevant to measuring timeliness and to defining timeliness requirements. Using signal detection theory and decision theory, the authors identify strategies to ...

factor influencing the adoption of internet banking

دوره مشترک کارشناسی ارشد بازاریابی و تجارت الکترونیک دانشگاه تربیت مدرس_ دانشگاه تکنولوژی lule? چکیده پایان نامه عوامل موثر بر پذیرش اینترنت بانک توسط مشتریان پیشرفت فناوری اطلاعات و ارتباطات و به طور خاص رشد اینترنت جهت تراکنش های معاملات بازرگانی، تاثیر بسیار عمیقی در صنعت بانکداری داشته است.این در حالی ست که نفوذ بانکداری اینترنتی در کشورهای در حال توسعه بسیار کندتر از نفوذ آن ...

Detecting Disease Outbreaks in Mass Gatherings Using Internet Data

BACKGROUND Mass gatherings, such as music festivals and religious events, pose a health care challenge because of the risk of transmission of communicable diseases. This is exacerbated by the fact that participants disperse soon after the gathering, potentially spreading disease within their communities. The dispersion of participants also poses a challenge for traditional surveillance methods....