Participatory Epidemiology: Use of Mobile Phones for Community-Based Health Reporting
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1 Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Public Health Surveillance Program Office, Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, & Laboratory Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 5 Internews, Nairobi, Kenya, 6 Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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