A 21st century approach to tackling dengue: Crowdsourced surveillance, predictive mapping and tailored communication

Lwin, May O.; Vijaykumar, Santosh; Fernando, Owen Noel Newton; Cheong, Siew Ann; Rathnayake, Vajira Sampath; Lim, Gentatsu; Theng, Yin‐Leng; Chaudhuri, Subhasis; Foo, Schubert

doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.09.021

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“…For systems that monitor animal health events, reports may be structured to capture either illness or death of domestic or wild animals and human-animal interactions such as dog bites. Finally, some systems in the IWOPS network involve identification of potential mosquito breeding sites or other vector reporting tools to inform community control measures [7,8]. Figure 1 maps the participatory surveillance systems discussed here by country.…”

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Participatory Disease Surveillance: Engaging Communities Directly in Reporting, Monitoring, and Responding to Health Threats

Smolinski¹,

Crawley²,

Olsen³

et al. 2017

JMIR Public Health Surveill

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BackgroundSince 2012, the International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance (IWOPS) has served as an informal network to share best practices, consult on analytic methods, and catalyze innovation to advance the burgeoning method of direct engagement of populations in voluntary monitoring of disease.ObjectiveThis landscape provides an overview of participatory disease surveillance systems in the IWOPS network and orients readers to this growing field of practice.MethodsAuthors reviewed participatory approaches that include human and animal health surveillance, both syndromic (self- reported symptoms) and event-based, and how these tools have been leveraged for disease modeling and forecasting. The authors also discuss benefits, challenges, and future directions for participatory disease surveillance.ResultsThere are at least 23 distinct participatory surveillance tools or programs represented in the IWOPS network across 18 countries. Organizations supporting these tools are diverse in nature.ConclusionsParticipatory disease surveillance is a promising method to complement both traditional, facility-based surveillance and newer digital epidemiology systems.

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confidence: 99%

Participatory Disease Surveillance: Engaging Communities Directly in Reporting, Monitoring, and Responding to Health Threats

Smolinski¹,

Crawley²,

Olsen³

et al. 2017

JMIR Public Health Surveill

136

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“…There are several useful lessons learnt by Lwin et al, whose research team launched pandemic dengue surveillance in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which can be adopted by the team [5]. Firstly, to increase sustainability, it is important to collaborate with members of government bodies.…”

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Snake Alert Application

Fernando

Vijaykumar

Meurzec

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Digital Health

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In 2008, an estimated 90,000 lives were lost to snake bites, with India being the most devastated [1]. Governments and health agencies spend time and money trying to curb this, but frequently fail because of the dynamic nature of snake threats. Snake Alert is a public health communication application, aiming to provide users assistance in reporting and being notified of snake sightings. First, prevention of snake encounters, by crowd pooling information on snake sightings based on geographical location. Next, the application allows users to upload photos of snakes upon each sighting, and with image recognition, and identifies the respective snake species. Lastly, the application provides onsite instructional self-treatment with specific advice based snake type. This application can be used to save lives, and provide accurate & dynamic information to people living in remote parts of the world.

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“…More recently, Lwin et al (20) reported the application of the PE approach to the conceptual and technological development of a mobile-based crowd-surveillance application called Mo-Buzz for use by public health inspectors and the general public to address dengue outbreaks in Sri Lanka. Other similar initiatives have adopted this approach to bolster the public health management of asthma, and natural disasters such as earthquakes (9).…”

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FluMob: Enabling Surveillance of Acute Respiratory Infections in Health-care Workers via Mobile Phones

Lwin

Yung

Yap

et al. 2017

Front. Public Health

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Singapore is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases and faces a constant risk of pandemic outbreaks as a major travel and health hub for Southeast Asia. With an increasing penetration of smart phone usage in this region, Singapore’s pandemic preparedness framework can be strengthened by applying a mobile-based approach to health surveillance and control, and improving upon existing ideas by addressing gaps, such as a lack of health communication. FluMob is a digitally integrated syndromic surveillance system designed to assist health authorities in obtaining real-time epidemiological and surveillance data from health-care workers (HCWs) within Singapore, by allowing them to report influenza incidence using smartphones. The system, integrating a fully responsive web-based interface and a mobile interface, is made available to HCW using various types of mobile devices and web browsers. Real-time data generated from FluMob will be complementary to current health-care- and laboratory-based systems. This paper describes the development of FluMob, as well as challenges faced in the creation of the system.

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A 21st century approach to tackling dengue: Crowdsourced surveillance, predictive mapping and tailored communication

Cited by 65 publications

References 39 publications

Participatory Disease Surveillance: Engaging Communities Directly in Reporting, Monitoring, and Responding to Health Threats

Participatory Disease Surveillance: Engaging Communities Directly in Reporting, Monitoring, and Responding to Health Threats

Snake Alert Application

FluMob: Enabling Surveillance of Acute Respiratory Infections in Health-care Workers via Mobile Phones

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