Our first paper on the participatory surveillance project grippenet.fr just appeared in PLOS One:
Evaluating the feasibility and participants' representativeness of an online nationwide surveillance system for influenza in France
M Debin, C Turbelin, T Blanchon, I Bonmarin, A Falchi, T Hanslik, D Levy-Bruhl, C Poletto, V Colizza
PLOS One 8(9):e73675 (2013)
The paper presents the results of our first analysis on the data collected through grippenet.fr: it evaluates the feasibility of the implementation of the project during its launch season (2011/2012 influenza season) with respect to other partnering projects in Europe (Influenzanet), and assesses the representativeness of the grippenet.fr population.
Evaluating the feasibility and participants' representativeness of an online nationwide surveillance system for influenza in France
M Debin, C Turbelin, T Blanchon, I Bonmarin, A Falchi, T Hanslik, D Levy-Bruhl, C Poletto, V Colizza
PLOS One 8(9):e73675 (2013)
The paper presents the results of our first analysis on the data collected through grippenet.fr: it evaluates the feasibility of the implementation of the project during its launch season (2011/2012 influenza season) with respect to other partnering projects in Europe (Influenzanet), and assesses the representativeness of the grippenet.fr population.
In summary, our results show that:
- grippenet.fr population covers all regions of France, with a relatively good representation in the majority of its regions (see on the right, grey regions)
- women participate more than men
- the age class [60-69] is overrepresented, whereas young adults ([18-29] class) are underrepresented
- grippenet.fr population is more frequently employed, with a higher education
- prevalence of asthma and diabetes is in good agreement with the general population, whereas grippenet.fr participants are more vaccinated
- mobility of grippenet.fr participants nicely captures the most important features of french commuting (see below)
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