Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Innovations to Developing Settings
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Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Innovations to Developing Settings
Surveillance, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), “is the cornerstone of public health security” [1]. In many developing countries, human, laboratory, and infrastructure limitations impede effective surveillance [2–5]. Such countries likely do not meet core surveillance and response capacities under the new International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) [6], which require detection o...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050072