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Petter Pilesjö

Petter Pilesjö

Professor

Petter Pilesjö

Establishing spatially-enabled health registry systems using implicit spatial data pools: case study - Uganda

Författare

  • Augustus Aturinde
  • Nakasi Rose
  • Mahdi Farnaghi
  • Gilbert Maiga
  • Petter Pilesjö
  • Ali Mansourian

Summary, in English

BACKGROUND: Spatial epidemiological analyses primarily depend on spatially-indexed medical records. Some countries have devised ways of capturing patient-specific spatial details using ZIP codes, postcodes or personal numbers, which are geocoded. However, for most resource-constrained African countries, the absence of a means to capture patient resident location as well as inexistence of spatial data infrastructures makes capturing of patient-level spatial data unattainable.

METHODS: This paper proposes and demonstrates a creative low-cost solution to address the issue. The solution is based on using interoperable web services to capture fine-scale locational information from existing "spatial data pools" and link them to the patients' information.

RESULTS: Based on a case study in Uganda, the paper presents the idea and develops a prototype for a spatially-enabled health registry system that allows for fine-level spatial epidemiological analyses.

CONCLUSION: It has been shown and discussed that the proposed solution is feasible for implementation and the collected spatially-indexed data can be used in spatial epidemiological analyses to identify hotspot areas with elevated disease incidence rates, link health outcomes to environmental exposures, and generally improve healthcare planning and provisioning.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
  • Centrum för geografiska informationssystem (GIS-centrum)
  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)

Publiceringsår

2019-11-08

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

215-215

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volym

19

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

BioMed Central (BMC)

Ämne

  • Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • Spatially-enabled health registry
  • SDI
  • RESTful web services
  • Spatial epidemiology
  • Mobile GIS
  • Uganda

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1472-6947