Syndromic surveillance: adapting innovations to developing settings

PLoS Med. 2008 Mar 25;5(3):e72. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050072.

Abstract

The tools and strategies of syndromic surveillance, say the authors, hold promise for improving public health security in developing countries.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / prevention & control*
  • Developing Countries / statistics & numerical data
  • Diarrhea / epidemiology
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
  • Electronic Data Processing
  • Humans
  • Indonesia / epidemiology
  • Peru / epidemiology
  • Population Surveillance / methods*
  • Syndrome