Bringing the Public Into Public Health

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Channel: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · 2014 · News & Politics

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Dr. Michael Johansson of the CDC Dengue Branch describes the use of internet-based participatory surveillance to collect community health data.  Participatory surveillance is a public health surveillance method that directly questions people in a community about their health rather than relying on more traditional physician based health reporting.

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