Review of Geospatial Technology for Infectious Disease Surveillance: Use Case on COVID-19
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Review of Geospatial Technology for Infectious Disease Surveillance: Use Case on COVID-19 Sameer Saran1 • Priyanka Singh1 • Vishal Kumar1 • Prakash Chauhan1 Received: 28 July 2020 / Accepted: 4 August 2020 / Published online: 18 August 2020 Indian Society of Remote Sensing 2020
Abstract This paper discusses on the increasing relevancy of geospatial technologies such as geographic information system (GIS) in the public health domain, particularly for the infectious disease surveillance and modelling strategies. Traditionally, the disease mapping tasks have faced many challenges—(1) authors rarely documented the evidence that were used to create map, (2) before evolution of GIS, many errors aroused in mapping tasks which were expanded extremely at global scales, and (3) there were no fidelity assessment of maps which resulted in inaccurate precision. This study on infectious diseases geo-surveillance is divided into four broad sections with emphasis on handling geographical and temporal issues to help in public health decision-making and planning policies: (1) geospatial mapping of diseases using its spatial and temporal information to understand their behaviour across geography; (2) the citizen’s involvement as volunteers in giving health and disease data to assess the critical situation for disease’s spread and prevention in neighbourhood effect; (3) scientific analysis of health-related behaviour using mathematical epidemiological and geo-statistical approaches with (4) capacity building program. To illustrate each theme, recent case studies are cited and case studies are performed on COVID-19 to demonstrate selected models. Keywords Geospatial technology Citizen Science Public health COVID-19 Mathematical epidemiology
Introduction The public health sector’s increasing demand for mapping, analytics and visualization had started a date back in the last 20 years, which has resulted in a growing informationage technology for communicable disease surveillance and epidemiology (Baker et al. 1995; Bos and Blobel 2007; Friede et al. 1993; Friede 1995; Khan et al. 2010; Reeder et al. 2012; Yu and Edberg 2005). This continuous public health burden with advances in information technology & Sameer Saran [email protected] Priyanka Singh [email protected] Vishal Kumar [email protected] Prakash Chauhan [email protected] 1
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Indian Space Research Organisation, #4, Kalidas Road, Dehradun 248001, India
combined with spatial data led to the development of various tools and systems that provides visualization of disease data in space and time (Dredger et al. 2007; Kothari et al. 2008; Robertson and Nelson 2010; Schriml et al. 2009). The first integral definition of public health was given by Winslow (1920) as ‘‘science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals’’. The American Public Health Association (APHA) m
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