Title: Participatory epidemiology : use of mobile phones for community-based health reporting

Authors: Freifeld, Clark C.

Place: [San Francisco, CA etc.

Publisher: Public library of science (PLoS) medicine]

Year: 2010

Journal: PLoS medicine

Volume: Vol. 7, Issue 12

PAGE: --

Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: disease control, communicable diseases, data collection, mobile telecommunication services

Abstract: The article summarizes some promising mobile applications for health monitoring and information sharing, e.g. FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi and GeoChat. Preliminary results from a study deploying a smartphone application which enabled the general public to report infectious disease events are reported.

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