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

With the incidence of Lyme and other tickborne diseases on the rise in the US and globally, there is a critical need for data-driven tools that communicate the magnitude of this problem and help guide public health responses. We present the Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard (https:/...

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Autores principales: Curriero, Frank C., Wychgram, Cara, Rebman, Alison W., Corrigan, Anne E., Kvit, Anton, Shields, Timothy, Aucott, John N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8635336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34851988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260122
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author Curriero, Frank C.
Wychgram, Cara
Rebman, Alison W.
Corrigan, Anne E.
Kvit, Anton
Shields, Timothy
Aucott, John N.
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description With the incidence of Lyme and other tickborne diseases on the rise in the US and globally, there is a critical need for data-driven tools that communicate the magnitude of this problem and help guide public health responses. We present the Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard (https://www.hopkinslymetracker.org/), a new tool that harnesses the power of geography to raise awareness and fuel research and scientific collaboration. The dashboard is unique in applying a geographic lens to tickborne diseases, aiming not only to become a global tracker of tickborne diseases but also to contextualize their complicated geography with a comprehensive set of maps and spatial data sets representing a One Health approach. We share our experience designing and implementing the dashboard, describe the main features, and discuss current limitations and future directions.
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spelling pubmed-86353362021-12-02 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 Aucott, John N. PLoS One Research Article With the incidence of Lyme and other tickborne diseases on the rise in the US and globally, there is a critical need for data-driven tools that communicate the magnitude of this problem and help guide public health responses. We present the Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard (https://www.hopkinslymetracker.org/), a new tool that harnesses the power of geography to raise awareness and fuel research and scientific collaboration. The dashboard is unique in applying a geographic lens to tickborne diseases, aiming not only to become a global tracker of tickborne diseases but also to contextualize their complicated geography with a comprehensive set of maps and spatial data sets representing a One Health approach. We share our experience designing and implementing the dashboard, describe the main features, and discuss current limitations and future directions. Public Library of Science 2021-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8635336/ /pubmed/34851988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260122 Text en © 2021 Curriero et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Corrigan, Anne E.
Kvit, Anton
Shields, Timothy
Aucott, John N.
The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration
title The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration
title_full The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration
title_fullStr The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration
title_full_unstemmed The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration
title_short The Lyme and Tickborne Disease Dashboard: A map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration
title_sort lyme and tickborne disease dashboard: a map-based resource to promote public health awareness and research collaboration
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8635336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34851988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260122
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