Amplification of perceived risk among users of a national travel health Web site during the 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus outbreak.

Jakob Petersen; Hilary Simons; Dipti Patel

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2017.11.012

Amplification of perceived risk among users of a national travel health Web site during the 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus outbreak.

Jakob Petersen, Hilary Simons, Dipti Patel

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Abstract

Timely outbreak information was paramount to public health bodies issuing travel advisories during the 2013-2016 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak. This article explores the potential for a syndromic system/Shewhart control chart based on the online interaction with a national travel health Web site in comparison with searches on the Google UK search engine. The study showed an amplification of perceived risk among users of a national travel health Web site months before the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and the initial surge in public interest on Google UK in August 2014. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2017 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. All rights reserved.]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	843-845
Number of pages	3
Journal	American Journal of Infection Control
Volume	46
Issue number	7
Early online date	2 Jan 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2017.11.012
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2018

Keywords

epidemiology
health services
Infections
prevention
surveillance

UN SDGs

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