Evaluating the feasibility and participants' representativeness of an online nationwide surveillance system for influenza in France.

ABSTRACT: The increasing Internet coverage and the widespread use of digital devices offer the possibility to develop new digital surveillance systems potentially capable to provide important aid to epidemiological and public health monitoring and research. In France, a new nationwide surveillance system for influenza-like illness, GrippeNet.fr, was introduced since the 2011/2012 season based on an online participatory mechanism and open to the general population. We evaluate the recruitment and participation of users to the first pilot season with respect to similar efforts in Europe to assess the feasibility of establishing a participative network of surveillance in France. We further investigate the representativeness of the GrippeNet.fr population along a set of indicators on geographical, demog

SUBMITTER: Debin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3770705 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature