A systematic review on mobile health applications for foodborne disease outbreak management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Foodborne disease outbreaks are common and notifiable in South Africa; however, they are rarely reported and poorly investigated. Surveillance data from the notification system is suboptimal and limited, and does not provide adequate information to guide public health action and inform policy. We performed a systematic review of published literature to identify mobile application-based outbreak response systems for managing foodborne disease outbreaks and to determine the elements that the system requires to generate foodborne disease data needed for public action.

Methods

Studies were identified through literature searches using online databases on PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, Academic Search Complete, Greenfile, Library, Information Science & Technology. Search was l

SUBMITTER: Ntshoe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8653522 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature