Visualization and analytics tools for infectious disease epidemiology

In e-government context, trust plays a vital role in helping citizens overcome perceived risks Trust makes citizens comfortable sharing personal information, make online government transaction, and acting on e- Government advices Thus, trust is a significant notion that should be critically investigated to help both researchers and practitioners to understand citizens' acceptance to e-Government Prior research in trust has focused mainly on consumer's trust in e-Commerce Most of existing literatures on trust in e-government focus on technical perspective such as PKI This paper contributes by proposing a conceptual model of citizens' trust in e- Government The proposed conceptual model of citizens' trust in e-government is integrated constructs from multiple disciplines: psychology, sociology, e-commerce, and HCI The research is aimed also to develop items in order to measure the theoretical constructs in the proposed model The pool of items is generated based on literature review Q-Methodology has been utilised to validate the generated measurement items The outcome of two Q-sorting rounds resulted in developing a survey instrument for proposed model with an excellent validity and reliability statistical results

Conceptualising Citizen's Trust in e-Government: Application of Q Methodology

The development and evaluation of a PDA-based method for public health surveillance data collection in developing countries.

miasis, rather than for the evaluation of a complex epidemiological study, requiring expertise in the principles and practice of data management. Language barriers provided additional challenges in implementing an efficient data management system. Accordingly, we present details of the innovative database we developed, which allowed us to produce data that were protected against data entry errors and therefore more likely to be of high quality and reliability. Furthermore, it also provided us with evidence of protection. This database can also serve as a template for other epidemiological studies of NTDs in the future.

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An innovative database for epidemiological field studies of neglected tropical diseases.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a serious public health concern throughout the world. Despite its public health prominence, however, how surveillance systems for hepatitis C should be designed is still a challenging issue especially in developing countries such as Iran. Establishing a surveillance system needs an ongoing process of case investigation, data collection, analysis of data and also dissemination of data to public health professionals and health care providers. This review article tries to provide the best recommendations for planning and implantation a surveillance system for HCV infection. Keywords: Epidemiology, Hepatitis C infection, Iran, surveillance system

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L. Rosencrans

Papers

New frontiers for health information systems using Epi Info in developing countries: structured application framework for Epi Info (SAFE).