Natalie ADAMS Supervisors: Suchith ANAND Didier LEIBOVICI Participatory Health Surveys for Public Health Management of Contagious Diseases: Gastrointestinal Illness in Nottinghamshire
Mar 28, 2015
Natalie ADAMS
Supervisors: Suchith ANANDDidier LEIBOVICI
Participatory Health Surveys for Public Health Management of
Contagious Diseases:Gastrointestinal Illness in
Nottinghamshire
Presentation Overview
Background Aims and Objectives Literature Review Methodology Ethics Future work
Background
Minimal Gastrointestinal Illness (GI) epidemiology research undertaken at present time despite need for understanding
Rise in use of technology in epidemiology– eHealth & mHealth
Increasing awareness in public health of need to understand socio-economic and geographical patterns of infected individuals
Aims and Objectives Develop participatory survey for online and mobile applications to
collect epidemiological data on GI illness in Nottinghamshire
Link data with real-time mapping application to assess individual infection risk
To produce a working model and prototype by August 27th
Lay foundations for continuance to Masters project
Develop links with ASEAN/CISCAI Avian Influenza Monitoring
Literature Review
Increasing use of eHealth and mHealth in research for public domain
Need for sensitive and ethical handling of data for privacy and confidentiality emphasised
GI epidemiology is relatively under researched area and is much in need of investigation
Methodology
Methodology
Draft Questionnaire
Personal details
Postcode
Clinical Details
Scenario for GI
1)User connects to survey application via mobile phone web browser 2)Fills in survey, including postcode and GPS position for tracking purposes
Infected Individual
Application User
3)User receives a map with background information on prevalence/incidence of GI 4)User receives a GI status estimation (probable diagnosis) and advice
Ethics Ethical Approval Pending
Use of volunteer participants providing personal information
Can liaise with HPA as ethical approval already established
Need to guarantee data security
Future Work
Hoped that results will indicate potential niche for extensive use of technology in GI epidemiology
Links with ASEAN/CISCAI
Masters project
References
Leibovici D, Anand S, Swan J, Goulding J, Hobona G, Pawlowicz S, Bastin L, Jackson M and James R "OGC Standards based Geospatial mashups for health and epidemic mapping", HealthGIS 2010.
Open Street Map (2010) [online] Date Accessed: 30th July 2010. Available at: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
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