Fighting pandemics with digital epidemiology
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Digital Epidemiology
Mobile, social, real-time: the ongoing revolution in the way people communicate has given rise to a new kind of epidemiology. Digital data sources, when harnessed appropriately, can provide local and timely information about disease and health dynamics in populations around the world. The rapid, unprecedented increase in the availability of relevant data from various digital sources creates con...
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عنوان ژورنال: EClinicalMedicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2589-5370
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100512