Natalie ADAMS

Supervisors: Suchith ANANDDidier LEIBOVICI

Participatory Health Surveys for Public Health Management of

Contagious Diseases:Gastrointestinal Illness in

Nottinghamshire

Presentation Overview

Background Aims and Objectives Literature Review Methodology Ethics Future work

Background

Minimal Gastrointestinal Illness (GI) epidemiology research undertaken at present time despite need for understanding

Rise in use of technology in epidemiology– eHealth & mHealth

Increasing awareness in public health of need to understand socio-economic and geographical patterns of infected individuals

Aims and Objectives Develop participatory survey for online and mobile applications to

collect epidemiological data on GI illness in Nottinghamshire

Link data with real-time mapping application to assess individual infection risk

To produce a working model and prototype by August 27th

Lay foundations for continuance to Masters project

Develop links with ASEAN/CISCAI Avian Influenza Monitoring

Literature Review

Increasing use of eHealth and mHealth in research for public domain

Need for sensitive and ethical handling of data for privacy and confidentiality emphasised

GI epidemiology is relatively under researched area and is much in need of investigation

Methodology

Methodology

Draft Questionnaire

Personal details

Postcode

Clinical Details

Scenario for GI

1)User connects to survey application via mobile phone web browser 2)Fills in survey, including postcode and GPS position for tracking purposes

Infected Individual

Application User

3)User receives a map with background information on prevalence/incidence of GI 4)User receives a GI status estimation (probable diagnosis) and advice

Ethics Ethical Approval Pending

Use of volunteer participants providing personal information

Can liaise with HPA as ethical approval already established

Need to guarantee data security

Future Work

Hoped that results will indicate potential niche for extensive use of technology in GI epidemiology

Links with ASEAN/CISCAI

Masters project

References

Leibovici D, Anand S, Swan J, Goulding J, Hobona G, Pawlowicz S, Bastin L, Jackson M and James R "OGC Standards based Geospatial mashups for health and epidemic mapping", HealthGIS 2010.

Open Street Map (2010) [online] Date Accessed: 30th July 2010. Available at: http://www.openstreetmap.org/

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