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Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis COVID triage tool
COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 infection continues to spread across Africa. In Africa, mobile phone applications have been used for the surveillance and reporting of infectious diseases such as malaria, me...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7900840/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207621996876 |
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author | Owoyemi, Ayomide Ikpe, Ron Toye, Mariam Rewane, Ayesan Abdullateef, Moshood Obaseki, Etin Mustafa, Segun Adeosun, Wale |
author_facet | Owoyemi, Ayomide Ikpe, Ron Toye, Mariam Rewane, Ayesan Abdullateef, Moshood Obaseki, Etin Mustafa, Segun Adeosun, Wale |
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description | COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 infection continues to spread across Africa. In Africa, mobile phone applications have been used for the surveillance and reporting of infectious diseases such as malaria, measles, polio, and other notifiable diseases as mandated by the WHO. A good example is the early warning alert and response system. We developed an eight-question triage tool using the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control surveillance case definitions for new coronavirus disease. Based on the assessed risk level we offered advice and guidance on the next steps. A user-administered tool such as this is vital to COVID19 control. It is also significant in relieving the burden on health systems, providing information on national health guidelines for prevention and control, fostering the participation of citizens, and giving them the next steps, pandemic control efforts become more effective. |
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spelling | pubmed-79008402021-03-04 Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis COVID triage tool Owoyemi, Ayomide Ikpe, Ron Toye, Mariam Rewane, Ayesan Abdullateef, Moshood Obaseki, Etin Mustafa, Segun Adeosun, Wale Digit Health Special Collection on Covid-19 COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 infection continues to spread across Africa. In Africa, mobile phone applications have been used for the surveillance and reporting of infectious diseases such as malaria, measles, polio, and other notifiable diseases as mandated by the WHO. A good example is the early warning alert and response system. We developed an eight-question triage tool using the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control surveillance case definitions for new coronavirus disease. Based on the assessed risk level we offered advice and guidance on the next steps. A user-administered tool such as this is vital to COVID19 control. It is also significant in relieving the burden on health systems, providing information on national health guidelines for prevention and control, fostering the participation of citizens, and giving them the next steps, pandemic control efforts become more effective. SAGE Publications 2021-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7900840/ /pubmed/33680485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207621996876 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Special Collection on Covid-19 Owoyemi, Ayomide Ikpe, Ron Toye, Mariam Rewane, Ayesan Abdullateef, Moshood Obaseki, Etin Mustafa, Segun Adeosun, Wale Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis COVID triage tool |
title | Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis
COVID triage tool |
title_full | Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis
COVID triage tool |
title_fullStr | Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis
COVID triage tool |
title_full_unstemmed | Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis
COVID triage tool |
title_short | Mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in Africa; Wellvis
COVID triage tool |
title_sort | mobile health approaches to disease surveillance in africa; wellvis
covid triage tool |
topic | Special Collection on Covid-19 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7900840/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680485 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207621996876 |
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