title: Internet activity as a proxy for vaccination compliance.
abstract: Tracking the progress of vaccination campaigns is a challenging and important public health need. Examining a recent Polio outbreak in the Middle East, we show that novel methods utilizing online search trends have great potential to provide a real-time, reliable proxy for vaccination rates over space and time.
authors: Predictive Medicine Group, Children's Hospital Boston, 1 Autumn St. Room 540.1, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Electronic address: yuval.barakcorren@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors: Yuval
authors: Y
authors: Barak-Corren
authors: Predictive Medicine Group, Children's Hospital Boston, 1 Autumn St. Room 540.1, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: Ben.Reis@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors: Ben Y
authors: BY
authors: Reis
mesh_terms: D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D055118:Medication Adherence; D008877:Middle East; D061108:Social Media / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis; D014611:Vaccination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Internet/utilization; Polio infections/prevention & control; Polio/immunology; Sentinel surveillance; Vaccination/statistics & numerical data