A 21st century approach to tackling dengue : crowdsourced surveillance, predictive mapping and tailored communication

• Main 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
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104217; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19475
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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 compon...