Do you live in france? help us monitor the influenza in the country, register on grippenet.fr and let us know how you feel.
Vous etes grippe? faites-vous connaitre! Determining the number of cases in an epidemic is fundamental to properly evaluate several disease features of high relevance for public health policies such as mortality, morbidity or hospitalization rates. Disease surveillance is key to control and response planning, providing valuable information to devise and apply public health interventions in time. Influenza activity is currently monitored using a combination of clinical and virological information collected through a network of sentinel medical practitioners (GPs) and a network of reference laboratories, such as the Reseau Sentinelles in France.
Next to the traditional surveillance system, innovative Information Communication Technologies (ICT) are spurring the development of new mechanisms for information retrieval, and now start to allow the prompt gathering of large amount of data enabling for the first time the real-time analysis of a pandemic in a very detailed way. In particular, the collaborative aspect of the Web2.0 is now pervading a large set of systems including health-related ones.Influenzanet.org is an online project for disease surveillance that consists of a fast and flexible method to monitor in real time the temporal and geographic evolution of influenza activity in several European countries through the participation of volunteers in the population. The system is currently active in The Netherlands and Belgium, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom,Sweden, and starting today -January 25, 2012- the system is also launched in France under the name of grippenet.fr.
Next to the traditional surveillance system, innovative Information Communication Technologies (ICT) are spurring the development of new mechanisms for information retrieval, and now start to allow the prompt gathering of large amount of data enabling for the first time the real-time analysis of a pandemic in a very detailed way. In particular, the collaborative aspect of the Web2.0 is now pervading a large set of systems including health-related ones.Influenzanet.org is an online project for disease surveillance that consists of a fast and flexible method to monitor in real time the temporal and geographic evolution of influenza activity in several European countries through the participation of volunteers in the population. The system is currently active in The Netherlands and Belgium, Portugal, Italy, United Kingdom,Sweden, and starting today -January 25, 2012- the system is also launched in France under the name of grippenet.fr.
Citizens living in France can freely and voluntarily participate, answering a weekly survey of questions for the assessment of influenza-like-illness (ILI) based on reported symptoms. The information provided by the users is treated according to the national and European privacy regulations, and is processed in real time and visualized in form of maps and plots, accessible directly on the website, and publicly available.
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