| Literature DB >> 25869888 |
Yuval Barak-Corren1, Ben Y Reis2.
Abstract
Tracking the progress of vaccination campaigns is a challenging and important public health need. Examining a recent Polio outbreak in the Middle East, we show that novel methods utilizing online search trends have great potential to provide a real-time, reliable proxy for vaccination rates over space and time.Entities:
Keywords: Internet/utilization; Polio infections/prevention & control; Polio/immunology; Sentinel surveillance; Vaccination/statistics & numerical data
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25869888 PMCID: PMC4430188 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.03.100
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vaccine ISSN: 0264-410X Impact factor: 3.641