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SUBMITTER: Feng S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6550280 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feng Shuo S Grépin Karen A KA Chunara Rumi R
NPJ digital medicine 20181002
The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa was an exemplar for the need to rapidly measure population-level health-seeking behaviors, in order to understand healthcare utilization during emergency situations. Taking advantage of the high prevalence of mobile phones, we deployed a national SMS-poll and collected data about individual-level health and health-seeking behavior throughout the outbreak from 6694 individuals from March to June 2015 in Liberia. Using propensity score matching to generate ...[more]