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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Date Submitted: Mar 19, 2020
Date Accepted: Apr 13, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Apr 14, 2020

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

A Case for Participatory Disease Surveillance of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Garg S, Bhatnagar N, Gangadharan N Jr

A Case for Participatory Disease Surveillance of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020;6(2):e18795

DOI: 10.2196/18795

PMID: 32287038

PMCID: 7164788

CASE FOR PARTICIPATORY DISEASE SURVEILLANCE FOR COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDIA

  • Suneela Garg; 
  • Nidhi Bhatnagar; 
  • Navya Gangadharan Jr

ABSTRACT

COVID 19 pandemic needs deployment of novel surveillance strategies to curtail the spread of disease further in the community. Participatory disease surveillance may be deployed in countries like India with scarce resources and not so robust heath care system. The innovative surveillance mechanism will result in more accuracy in data collection, offer faster aggregation and analysis of data and support public health authorities in prompt response measures. It will also reduce the number of patients reporting to health care system for treatment seeking preventing health establishments to act as foci for further spread of disease in the community.


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Please cite as:

Garg S, Bhatnagar N, Gangadharan N Jr

A Case for Participatory Disease Surveillance of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020;6(2):e18795

DOI: 10.2196/18795

PMID: 32287038

PMCID: 7164788

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