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- Title
Timeliness of Nongovernmental versus Governmental Global Outbreak Communications.
- Authors
Mondor, Luke; Brownstein, John S.; Chan, Emily; Madoff, Lawrence C.; Pollack, Marjorie P.; Buckeridge, David L.; Brewer, Timothy F.
- Abstract
To compare the timeliness of nongovernmental and governmental communications of infectious disease outbreaks and evaluate trends for each over time, we investigated the time elapsed from the beginning of an outbreak to public reporting of the event. We found that governmental sources improved the timeliness of public reporting of infectious disease outbreaks during the study period.
- Subjects
EPIDEMIC research; REPORTING of diseases; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; PUBLIC health research; GOVERNMENT information; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 7, p1184
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1807.120249