The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration

Curriero, Frank C.; Wychgram, Cara; Rebman, Alison W.; Corrigan, Anne E.; Kvit, Anton; Shields, Timothy

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0260122

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“…In most studies, timely data reporting and a suitable time trend in data analysis have been proposed as essential indicators in dashboard design. These findings align with the results of Curriero et al, emphasizing the importance of providing up-to-date data reports [ 57 ]. Another critical indicator in dashboard design is the ability to analyze data based on geographic location, age, gender, social status, ethnicity, and race.…”

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Developing public health surveillance dashboards: a scoping review on the design principles

Rabiei,

Bastani,

Ahmadi

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Public Health Dashboards (PHDs) facilitate the monitoring and prediction of disease outbreaks by continuously monitoring the health status of the community. This study aimed to identify design principles and determinants for developing public health surveillance dashboards. Methodology This scoping review is based on Arksey and O'Malley's framework as included in JBI guidance. Four databases were used to review and present the proposed principles of designing PHDs: IEEE, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. We considered articles published between January 1, 2010 and November 30, 2022. The final search of articles was done on November 30, 2022. Only articles in the English language were included. Qualitative synthesis and trend analysis were conducted. Results Findings from sixty-seven articles out of 543 retrieved articles, which were eligible for analysis, indicate that most of the dashboards designed from 2020 onwards were at the national level for managing and monitoring COVID-19. Design principles for the public health dashboard were presented in five groups, i.e., considering aim and target users, appropriate content, interface, data analysis and presentation types, and infrastructure. Conclusion Effective and efficient use of dashboards in public health surveillance requires implementing design principles to improve the functionality of these systems in monitoring and decision-making. Considering user requirements, developing a robust infrastructure for improving data accessibility, developing, and applying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for data processing and reporting purposes, and designing interactive and intuitive interfaces are key for successful design and development.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Developing public health surveillance dashboards: a scoping review on the design principles

Rabiei,

Bastani,

Ahmadi

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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“…Surveillance data in Canada are not available at the detail of CSD, but the Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Dashboard ( https://www.hopkinslymetracker.org/ ) collates LD cases reported by public health departments on their websites in all Canadian provinces at the health region level. 42 Health regions in Canada now have geographic borders that are consistent with CSDs, but in most cases, there are a number of CSDs per health region. 43 Each CSD in the study area was assigned to its corresponding health region using the Intersect function in ArcGIS Pro (version 3.1.0; Esri Canada), and the predicted number of LD cases was calculated for each health region for comparison against the observed data from the Johns Hopkins Dashboard.…”

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Estimating the Incidence and Economic Cost of Lyme Disease Cases in Canada in the 21st Century with Projected Climate Change

Ogden,

Dumas,

Gachon

et al. 2024

Environ Health Perspect

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Background: Lyme disease (LD) is emerging in Canada owing to the range expansion of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis ( I. scapularis ). Objectives: Our objective was to estimate future LD incidence in Canada, and economic costs, for the 21st century with projected climate change. Methods: Future regions of climatic suitability for I. scapularis were projected from temperature output of the North American Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment regional climate model ensemble using greenhouse gas Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 4.5 and 8.5. Once regions became climatically suitable for ticks, an algorithm derived from tick and LD case surveillance data projected subsequent increasing LD incidence. Three scenarios (optimistic, intermediate, and pessimistic) for maximum incidence at endemicity were selected based on LD surveillance, and underreporting estimates, from the United States. Health care and productivity cost estimates of LD cases were obtained from the literature. Results: Projected annual LD cases for Canada ranged from 120,000 to by 2050. Variation in incidence was mostly due to the maximum incidence at endemicity selected, with minor contributions from variations among climate models and RCPs. Projected annual costs were substantial, ranging from to a year by 2050. There was little difference in projected incidence and economic cost between RCPs, and from 2050 to 2100, because projected climate up to 2050 is similar for RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 (mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions captured in RCP4.5 does not impact climate before the 2050s) and by 2050 the most densely populated areas of the study region are projected to be climatically suitable for ticks. Conclusions: Future incidence and economic costs of LD in Canada are likely to be substantial, but uncertainties remain. Because densely populated areas of Canada are projected to become endemic under conservative climate change scenarios, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to provide substantial health co-benefits for LD. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP13759

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“…Geographical maps were used to show the geographical location of each dashboard. Correspondingly, data interpretation tools (For example, using color coding to indicate urgent/emergency alerts with red, normal situations with green, and warnings with yellow; minimizing distractions; avoiding unnecessary visual decorations in dashboard design) are essential in dashboard design [27,28,33,34,36,41,43,46,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59].…”

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Developing Public Health Surveillance Dashboards: A Scoping Review on the Design Principles

Rabiei

Bastani

Ahmadi

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Background Public health dashboards facilitate the monitoring and prediction of disease outbreaks by continuously monitoring the health status of the community. This study aimed to identify design principles and determinants for developing public health surveillance dashboards. Methodology This scoping review is based on Arksey and O'Malley's framework as included in JBI guidance. Four databases were used to review and present the proposed principles of designing public health dashboards: IEEE, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. We considered articles published between 2010 and 2022. The final search of articles was done on November 30, 2022. Only articles in English language were included. Qualitative synthesis and trend analysis was conducted. Results Findings from sixty-seven articles out of 543 retrieved articles which were eligible for analysis, indicate that most of the dashboards designed from 2020 onwards were at the national level for managing and monitoring COVID-19. Design principles for the public health dashboard were presented in five groups, i.e., considering aim and target users, appropriate content, interface, data analysis and presentation types, and infrastructure. Conclusion Effective and efficient use of dashboards in public health surveillance requires putting the design principles into practice to improve the functionality of these systems in monitoring and decision making. Taking requirements of users into account, developing a robust infrastructure for improving data accessibility, developing and applying Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for data processing and reporting purposes, and designing interactive and intuitive interfaces are key for successful design and development.

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The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration

Cited by 5 publications

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Developing public health surveillance dashboards: a scoping review on the design principles

Developing public health surveillance dashboards: a scoping review on the design principles

Estimating the Incidence and Economic Cost of Lyme Disease Cases in Canada in the 21st Century with Projected Climate Change

Developing Public Health Surveillance Dashboards: A Scoping Review on the Design Principles

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