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MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil

Mosquito surveillance is a crucial process for understanding the population dynamics of mosquitoes, as well as implementing interventional programs for controlling and preventing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Environmental surveillance agents who performing routine entomological surveys at...

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Autores principales: Aldosery, Aisha, Musah, Anwar, Birjovanu, Georgiana, Moreno, Giselle, Boscor, Andrei, Dutra, Livia, Santos, George, Nunes, Vania, Oliveira, Rossandra, Ambrizzi, Tercio, Massoni, Tiago, dos Santos, Wellington Pinheiro, Kostkova, Patty
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8578800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34778187
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.754072
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author Aldosery, Aisha
Musah, Anwar
Birjovanu, Georgiana
Moreno, Giselle
Boscor, Andrei
Dutra, Livia
Santos, George
Nunes, Vania
Oliveira, Rossandra
Ambrizzi, Tercio
Massoni, Tiago
dos Santos, Wellington Pinheiro
Kostkova, Patty
author_facet Aldosery, Aisha
Musah, Anwar
Birjovanu, Georgiana
Moreno, Giselle
Boscor, Andrei
Dutra, Livia
Santos, George
Nunes, Vania
Oliveira, Rossandra
Ambrizzi, Tercio
Massoni, Tiago
dos Santos, Wellington Pinheiro
Kostkova, Patty
author_sort Aldosery, Aisha
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description Mosquito surveillance is a crucial process for understanding the population dynamics of mosquitoes, as well as implementing interventional programs for controlling and preventing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Environmental surveillance agents who performing routine entomological surveys at properties in areas where mosquito-borne diseases are endemic play a critical role in vector surveillance by searching and destroying mosquito hotspots as well as collate information on locations with increased infestation. Currently, the process of recording information on paper-based forms is time-consuming and painstaking due to manual effort. The introduction of mobile surveillance applications will therefore improve the process of data collection, timely reporting, and field worker performance. Digital-based surveillance is critical in reporting real-time data; indeed, the real-time capture of data with phones could be used for predictive analytical models to predict mosquito population dynamics, enabling early warning detection of hotspots and thus alerting fieldworker agents into immediate action. This paper describes the development of a cross-platform digital system for improving mosquito surveillance in Brazil. It comprises of two components: a dashboard for managers and a mobile application for health agents. The former enables managers to assign properties to health workers who then survey them for mosquitoes and to monitor the progress of inspection visits in real-time. The latter, which is primarily designed as a data collection tool, enables the environmental surveillance agents to act on their assigned tasks of recording the details of the properties at inspections by filling out digital forms built into the mobile application, as well as details relating to mosquito infestation. The system presented in this paper was co-developed with significant input with environmental agents in two Brazilian cities where it is currently being piloted.
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spelling pubmed-85788002021-11-11 MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil Aldosery, Aisha Musah, Anwar Birjovanu, Georgiana Moreno, Giselle Boscor, Andrei Dutra, Livia Santos, George Nunes, Vania Oliveira, Rossandra Ambrizzi, Tercio Massoni, Tiago dos Santos, Wellington Pinheiro Kostkova, Patty Front Public Health Public Health Mosquito surveillance is a crucial process for understanding the population dynamics of mosquitoes, as well as implementing interventional programs for controlling and preventing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Environmental surveillance agents who performing routine entomological surveys at properties in areas where mosquito-borne diseases are endemic play a critical role in vector surveillance by searching and destroying mosquito hotspots as well as collate information on locations with increased infestation. Currently, the process of recording information on paper-based forms is time-consuming and painstaking due to manual effort. The introduction of mobile surveillance applications will therefore improve the process of data collection, timely reporting, and field worker performance. Digital-based surveillance is critical in reporting real-time data; indeed, the real-time capture of data with phones could be used for predictive analytical models to predict mosquito population dynamics, enabling early warning detection of hotspots and thus alerting fieldworker agents into immediate action. This paper describes the development of a cross-platform digital system for improving mosquito surveillance in Brazil. It comprises of two components: a dashboard for managers and a mobile application for health agents. The former enables managers to assign properties to health workers who then survey them for mosquitoes and to monitor the progress of inspection visits in real-time. The latter, which is primarily designed as a data collection tool, enables the environmental surveillance agents to act on their assigned tasks of recording the details of the properties at inspections by filling out digital forms built into the mobile application, as well as details relating to mosquito infestation. The system presented in this paper was co-developed with significant input with environmental agents in two Brazilian cities where it is currently being piloted. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8578800/ /pubmed/34778187 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.754072 Text en Copyright © 2021 Aldosery, Musah, Birjovanu, Moreno, Boscor, Dutra, Santos, Nunes, Oliveira, Ambrizzi, Massoni, dos Santos and Kostkova. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Public Health
Aldosery, Aisha
Musah, Anwar
Birjovanu, Georgiana
Moreno, Giselle
Boscor, Andrei
Dutra, Livia
Santos, George
Nunes, Vania
Oliveira, Rossandra
Ambrizzi, Tercio
Massoni, Tiago
dos Santos, Wellington Pinheiro
Kostkova, Patty
MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil
title MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil
title_full MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil
title_fullStr MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil
title_full_unstemmed MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil
title_short MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil
title_sort mewar: development of a cross-platform mobile application and web dashboard system for real-time mosquito surveillance in northeast brazil
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8578800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34778187
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.754072
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