Pilot use of a novel smartphone application to track traveller health behaviour and collect infectious disease data during a mass gathering: Hajj pilgrimage 2014

• Main Authors: Amani S. Alqahtani (Author), Nasser F. BinDhim (Author), Mohamed Tashani (Author), Harold W. Willaby (Author), Kerrie E. Wiley (Author), Anita E. Heywood (Author), Robert Booy (Author), Harunor Rashid (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study examines the feasibility of using a smartphone application (app) to conduct surveys among travellers during the Hajj pilgrimage, where the use of apps has not been evaluated for infectious disease surveillance. A longitudinal study was conducted among pilgrims at the Hajj 2014 using an iP...