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MEWAR: Development of a Cross-Platform Mobile Application and Web Dashboard System for Real-Time Mosquito Surveillance in Northeast Brazil

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FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.754072

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mobile technology; real-time; surveillance; mosquito; environmental surveillance agents; environmental health agents

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  1. British Council Newton Fund [280860230]
  2. Belmont Forum
  3. United Kingdom by UKRI NERC [NE/T013664/1]
  4. Space and Aeronautics Research Institution, National Center for Satellite Technology, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  5. NERC [NE/T013664/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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Mosquito surveillance is crucial for understanding mosquito population dynamics and controlling mosquito-borne diseases, with environmental surveillance agents playing a critical role. The introduction of mobile surveillance applications improves data collection, reporting, and performance of field workers.
Mosquito surveillance is a crucial process for understanding the population dynamics of mosquitoes, as well as implementing interventional programs for controlling and preventing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Environmental surveillance agents who performing routine entomological surveys at properties in areas where mosquito-borne diseases are endemic play a critical role in vector surveillance by searching and destroying mosquito hotspots as well as collate information on locations with increased infestation. Currently, the process of recording information on paper-based forms is time-consuming and painstaking due to manual effort. The introduction of mobile surveillance applications will therefore improve the process of data collection, timely reporting, and field worker performance. Digital-based surveillance is critical in reporting real-time data; indeed, the real-time capture of data with phones could be used for predictive analytical models to predict mosquito population dynamics, enabling early warning detection of hotspots and thus alerting fieldworker agents into immediate action. This paper describes the development of a cross-platform digital system for improving mosquito surveillance in Brazil. It comprises of two components: a dashboard for managers and a mobile application for health agents. The former enables managers to assign properties to health workers who then survey them for mosquitoes and to monitor the progress of inspection visits in real-time. The latter, which is primarily designed as a data collection tool, enables the environmental surveillance agents to act on their assigned tasks of recording the details of the properties at inspections by filling out digital forms built into the mobile application, as well as details relating to mosquito infestation. The system presented in this paper was co-developed with significant input with environmental agents in two Brazilian cities where it is currently being piloted.

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