Real-time monitoring of school absenteeism to enhance disease surveillance: a pilot study of a mobile electronic reporting system.
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2014-08-07
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School absenteeism is a common source of data used in syndromic surveillance which can eventually be used for early outbreak detection However the absenteeism reporting system in most schools especially in developing countries relies on a paper based method that limits its use for disease surveillance or outbreak detection