Global performance of epidemiologic surveillance of Zika virus: rapid assessment of an ongoing epidemic

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• 作者：E.F. Manrique-Hern&aacute ; ndez ; J.A. Fern&aacute ; ndez-Niñ ; o ; A.J. Idrovo ; ^{idrovoaj@yahoo.com.mx}
• 刊名：Public Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：143
• 期：Complete
• 页码：14-16
• 全文大小：204 K
• 卷排序：143

文摘

Good epidemiological surveillance systems can be used to define actions to control epidemics. Benford's law evaluates the quality of the data and the sensitivity of epidemiological surveillance systems. Only ten surveillance systems potentially performed well during the Zika epidemic. Benford's distribution should be routinely used to identify places where surveillance can be improved.