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Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia
Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is an effective tool for quantifying individuals’ mobility patterns and can be used to understand their influence on infectious disease transmission. In Cambodia, mobility measurements have been limited to questionnaires, which are of limited efficacy in ru...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35559983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266460 |
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author | Pepey, Anaïs Obadia, Thomas Kim, Saorin Sovannaroth, Siv Mueller, Ivo Witkowski, Benoit Vantaux, Amélie Souris, Marc |
author_facet | Pepey, Anaïs Obadia, Thomas Kim, Saorin Sovannaroth, Siv Mueller, Ivo Witkowski, Benoit Vantaux, Amélie Souris, Marc |
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description | Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is an effective tool for quantifying individuals’ mobility patterns and can be used to understand their influence on infectious disease transmission. In Cambodia, mobility measurements have been limited to questionnaires, which are of limited efficacy in rural environments. In this study, we used GPS tracking to measure the daily mobility of Cambodian forest goers, a population at high risk of malaria, and developed a workflow adapted to local constraints to produce an optimal dataset representative of the participants’ mobility. We provide a detailed assessment of the GPS tracking and analysis of the data, and highlight the associated difficulties to facilitate the implementation of similar studies in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-91061502022-05-14 Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia Pepey, Anaïs Obadia, Thomas Kim, Saorin Sovannaroth, Siv Mueller, Ivo Witkowski, Benoit Vantaux, Amélie Souris, Marc PLoS One Research Article Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is an effective tool for quantifying individuals’ mobility patterns and can be used to understand their influence on infectious disease transmission. In Cambodia, mobility measurements have been limited to questionnaires, which are of limited efficacy in rural environments. In this study, we used GPS tracking to measure the daily mobility of Cambodian forest goers, a population at high risk of malaria, and developed a workflow adapted to local constraints to produce an optimal dataset representative of the participants’ mobility. We provide a detailed assessment of the GPS tracking and analysis of the data, and highlight the associated difficulties to facilitate the implementation of similar studies in the future. Public Library of Science 2022-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9106150/ /pubmed/35559983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266460 Text en © 2022 Pepey 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pepey, Anaïs Obadia, Thomas Kim, Saorin Sovannaroth, Siv Mueller, Ivo Witkowski, Benoit Vantaux, Amélie Souris, Marc Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia |
title | Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia |
title_full | Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia |
title_fullStr | Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia |
title_full_unstemmed | Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia |
title_short | Mobility evaluation by GPS tracking in a rural, low-income population in Cambodia |
title_sort | mobility evaluation by gps tracking in a rural, low-income population in cambodia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35559983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266460 |
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