Using Human Movement Data to Identify Potential Areas of Zika Transmission: Case Study of the Largest Zika Cluster in Singapore

Rajarethinam, Jayanthi; Ong, Janet; Lim, Shi-Hui; Tay, Yu-Heng; Bounliphone, Wacha; Chong, Chin Soon; Yap, Grace; Ng, Lee Ching

doi:10.3390/ijerph16050808

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“…This category comprises mobile phone signals. 4 [ 84 – 87 ] Simple mobile communication Simple mobile phone communication involves the use of mobile phone numbers to allow contact with others including voice communication (e.g. calls).…”

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The use of mobile phones for the prevention and control of arboviral diseases: a scoping review

et al. 2021

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Background The rapid expansion of dengue, Zika and chikungunya with large scale outbreaks are an increasing public health concern in many countries. Additionally, the recent coronavirus pandemic urged the need to get connected for fast information transfer and exchange. As response, health programmes have -among other interventions- incorporated digital tools such as mobile phones for supporting the control and prevention of infectious diseases. However, little is known about the benefits of mobile phone technology in terms of input, process and outcome dimensions. The purpose of this scoping review is to analyse the evidence of the use of mobile phones as an intervention tool regarding the performance, acceptance, usability, feasibility, cost and effectiveness in dengue, Zika and chikungunya control programmes. Methods We conducted a scoping review of studies and reports by systematically searching: i) electronic databases (PubMed, PLOS ONE, PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease, LILACS, WHOLIS, ScienceDirect and Google scholar), ii) grey literature, using Google web and iii) documents in the list of references of the selected papers. Selected studies were categorized using a pre-determined data extraction form. Finally, a narrative summary of the evidence related to general characteristics of available mobile health tools and outcomes was produced. Results The systematic literature search identified 1289 records, 32 of which met the inclusion criteria and 4 records from the reference lists. A total of 36 studies were included coming from twenty different countries. Five mobile phone services were identified in this review: mobile applications (n = 18), short message services (n=7), camera phone (n = 6), mobile phone tracking data (n = 4), and simple mobile communication (n = 1). Mobile phones were used for surveillance, prevention, diagnosis, and communication demonstrating good performance, acceptance and usability by users, as well as feasibility of mobile phone under real life conditions and effectiveness in terms of contributing to a reduction of vectors/ disease and improving users-oriented behaviour changes. It can be concluded that there are benefits for using mobile phones in the fight against arboviral diseases as well as other epidemic diseases. Further studies particularly on acceptance, cost and effectiveness at scale are recommended.

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The use of mobile phones for the prevention and control of arboviral diseases: a scoping review

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“…Another recent study conducted by Huang [57] used weekday commuting network to construct an algorithm to analyze the diffusion of two infectious diseases in Taiwan, and the result suggested the availability of the commuting network in predicting epidemic diseases. Besides, Rajarethinam [17] conducted a study about Zika epidemic in Singapore using mobile phone data and found that there were higher odds of Zika cases being reported in the areas that were visited by people from epidemic clusters.…”

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“…Previous studies have shown that the meteorological environment, social-economic environment, and built environment could facilitate local infections [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Due to the limited flight range of mosquitos, which is usually less than 400 m [16], human mobility is considered and proven to be another important driver for DF transmissions [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Therefore, understanding human mobility is key to controlling the spread of infectious diseases.…”

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Examining the Effect of the Environment and Commuting Flow from/to Epidemic Areas on the Spread of Dengue Fever

Zhou

Liu

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Environment and human mobility have been considered as two important factors that drive the outbreak and transmission of dengue fever (DF). Most studies focus on the local environment while neglecting environment of the places, especially epidemic areas that people came from or traveled to. Commuting is a major form of interactions between places. Therefore, this research generates commuting flows from mobile phone tracked data. Geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are used to examine the effect of commuting flows, especially those from/to epidemic areas, on DF in 2014 at the Jiedao level in Guangzhou. The results suggest that (1) commuting flows from/to epidemic areas affect the transmission of DF; (2) such effects vary in space; and (3) the spatial variation of the effects can be explained by the environment of the epidemic areas that commuters commuted from/to. These findings have important policy implications for making effective intervention strategies, especially when resources are limited.

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“…Recent studies using mobile phone tracking data through CDR and mobile phone signals have been conducted in Asia region (Wesolowsiki et al, 2015;Mao et al, 2016;Rajarethinam et al, 2019). This strategy, mobile phone tracking data -when integrated with disease surveillance data and environmental data-has the potential to estimate human mobility in order to predict the spread of arbovirus diseases and outbreaks.…”

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The Use of Mobile Phones for the Prevention and Control of Arboviral Diseases: A Scoping Review

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Kroeger

Cárdenas

et al. 2020

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Background: The rapid expansion of dengue, Zika and chikungunya with large scale outbreaks are an increasing public health concern in many countries. Additionally, the recent coronavirus pandemic urged the need to get connected for fast information transfer and exchange. As response, health programmes have -among other interventions- incorporated digital tools such as mobile phones for supporting the control and prevention of infectious diseases. However, little is known about the benefits of mobile phone technology in terms of input, process and outcome dimensions. The purpose of this scoping review is to analyse the evidence of the use of mobile phones as an intervention tool regarding the performance, acceptance, usability, feasibility, cost and effectiveness in dengue, Zika and chikungunya control programmes.Methods: We conducted a scoping review of studies and reports by systematically searching: i) electronic databases (PubMed, PLOS ONE, PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease, LILACS, WHOLIS, ScienceDirect and Google scholar), ii) grey literature, using Google web and iii) documents in the list of references of the selected papers. Selected studies were categorized using a pre-determined data extraction form. Finally, a narrative summary of the evidence related to general characteristics of available mobile health tools and outcomes was produced. Results: The systematic literature search identified 1289 records, 32 of which met the inclusion criteria and 4 records from the reference lists. A total of 36 studies were included coming from twenty different countries. Five mobile phone services were identified in this review: mobile applications (n = 18), short message services (n=7), camera phone (n = 6), mobile phone tracking data (n = 4), and simple mobile communication (n = 1). Mobile phones were used for surveillance, prevention, diagnosis, and communication demonstrating good performance, acceptance and usability by users, as well as feasibility of mobile phone under real life conditions and effectiveness in terms of contributing to a reduction of vectors/ disease and improving users-oriented behaviour changes. It can be concluded that there are great opportunities for using mobile phones in the fight against arboviral diseases as well as other epidemic diseases. Further studies particularly on acceptance, cost and effectiveness at scale are recommended.

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Using Human Movement Data to Identify Potential Areas of Zika Transmission: Case Study of the Largest Zika Cluster in Singapore

Cited by 13 publications

References 28 publications

The use of mobile phones for the prevention and control of arboviral diseases: a scoping review

The use of mobile phones for the prevention and control of arboviral diseases: a scoping review

Examining the Effect of the Environment and Commuting Flow from/to Epidemic Areas on the Spread of Dengue Fever

The Use of Mobile Phones for the Prevention and Control of Arboviral Diseases: A Scoping Review

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