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Title: A 21st century approach to tackling dengue : crowdsourced surveillance, predictive mapping and tailored communication
Authors: Lwin, May Oo
Theng, Yin-Leng
Vijaykumar, Santosh
Fernando, Owen Noel Newton
Cheong, Siew Ann
Rathnayake, Vajira Sampath
Lim, Gentatsu
Chaudhuri, Subhasis
Foo, Schubert
Keywords: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media
Issue Date: 2014
Source: Lwin, M. O., Vijaykumar, S., Fernando, O. N. N., Cheong, S. A., Rathnayake, V. S., Lim, G. et al. (2013). A 21st century approach to tackling dengue: crowdsourced surveillance, predictive mapping and tailored communication. Acta Tropica, 130, 100-107.
Series/Report no.: Acta tropica
Abstract: This paper describes a social media system to prevent dengue in Sri Lanka and potentially in the rest of the South and Southeast Asia regions. The system integrates three concepts of public health prevention that have thus far been implemented only in silos. First, the predictive surveillance component uses a computer simulation to forewarn health authorities and the general public about impending disease outbreaks. The civic engagement component allows the general public to use social media tools to interact and engage with health authorities by aiding them in surveillance efforts by reporting symptoms, mosquito bites and breeding sites using smartphone technologies. The health communication component utilizes citizen data gathered from the first two components to disseminate customized health awareness messages to enhance knowledge and increase preventive behaviors among citizens. The system, known as “Mo-Buzz,” will be made available on a host of digital platforms like simple mobile phones, smart phones and a website. We present challenges and lessons learnt including content validation, stakeholder collaborations and applied trans-disciplinary research.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104217
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19475
ISSN: 0001-706X
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.09.021
Schools: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 
Rights: © 2013 Elsevier B.V. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Acta Tropica, Elsevier B.V. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org.ezlibproxy1.ntu.edu.sg/10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.09.021].
Fulltext Permission: open
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