Saúde na Copa: The World's First Application of Participatory Surveillance for a Mass Gathering at FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil.

Onicio Leal George Santiago Dimech Marlo Libel Wayner Vieira de Souza Eduarda Ângela Pessoa Cesse Mark S Smolinski Wanderson Kleber de Oliveira Jones Oliveira de Albuquerque

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2017)

Participatory surveillance through community engagement is an innovative way to conduct epidemiological surveillance. Compared to traditional epidemiological surveillance, advantages include lower costs of data acquisition, timeliness of information collected and shared, platform scalability, and capacity for integration between the population being served and public health services.

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