Geo-spatial reporting for monitoring of household immunization coverage through mobile phones: Findings from a feasibility study

Kazi, Abdul Momin; Ali, Maria; Ayub, K; Kalimuddin, Hussain; Zubair, Khurram; Kazi, Abdul Nafey; Artani, Azmina; Ali, Syed Asad

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.09.004

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“…are exploring how to use mobile phones both for text-message reminders as well as for geospatial mapping to monitor and visualize vaccination coverage at the household and town level. 56 …”

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The use of technology to promote vaccination: A social ecological model based framework

Kolff

Scott

Stockwell

2018

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Vaccinations are an important and effective cornerstone of preventive medical care. Growing technologic capabilities and use by both patients and providers present critical opportunities to leverage these tools to improve vaccination rates and public health. We propose the Social Ecological Model as a useful theoretical framework to identify areas in which technology has been or may be leveraged to target undervaccination across the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and society levels and the ways in which these levels interact.

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“…are exploring how to use mobile phones both for text-message reminders as well as for geospatial mapping to monitor and visualize vaccination coverage at the household and town level. 56 …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The use of technology to promote vaccination: A social ecological model based framework

Kolff

Scott

Stockwell

2018

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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“…[22][23][24][25][26][27][28] Studies have also focused on other issues such as vaccine stock maintenance, operational costs, vaccination data quality, electronic registers, health information systems, parental reminder systems, and global positioning systems to monitor vaccinators. 19,[29][30][31][32][33][34] One study gauged the timelines of childhood vaccination by using routine data to measure vaccination practices, and argued that delay in receiving scheduled vaccines left children vulnerable to these infectious diseases. 35 Nevertheless, there is a dearth of literature about how a global pandemic may affect vaccination programs for VPDs.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on vaccination programs: adverse or positive?

Ali

2020

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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The COVID-19 pandemic has posed multiple substantial challenges, affecting not only public health but also economic systems, socio-cultural patterns, and political institutions. Studies have focused on the relationships between complex emergencies and natural disasters with outbreaks of infectious diseases. However, there is a dearth of relevant literature on the impact of a global pandemic on vaccination programs -an important topic because delays or stops in such programs are likely to result in outbreaks and epidemics of other infectious diseases. Thus, this article discusses the negative and positive impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic may exert on vaccination for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). Negative impacts include the increased risk of VPD outbreaks in low-resource countries where vaccination programs must be temporarily halted to prevent the spread of infection. Positive effects include the strong possibility that the universally-recognized need for a coronavirus vaccine may increase people's appreciation for vaccines in general, resulting in improved vaccination uptake once the pandemic passes. Concerned stakeholders, such as governments and the World Health Organization (WHO), should seize this moment to effectively build on these positive impacts by planning renewed and revitalized post-COVID vaccination programs.

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“…With the popularization of smart mobile devices, carried nonmetric sensors have been widely applied in the collection of spatial data due to their convenience, low-cost, and availability [ 29 , 30 , 31 ]. This study aims to reconstruct 3D thermal models by fusing visible images with thermal images, in which geometric and corresponding temperature information are involved, for the scenes of different scales.…”

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Fusion of Infrared Thermal Image and Visible Image for 3D Thermal Model Reconstruction Using Smartphone Sensors

Yang

Lin

2018

Sensors

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Thermal infrared imagery provides temperature information on target objects, and has been widely applied in non-destructive testing. However, thermal infrared imagery is not always able to display detailed textures of inspected objects, which hampers the understanding of geometric entities consisting of temperature information. Although some commercial software has been developed for 3D thermal model displays, the software requires the use of expensive specific thermal infrared sensors. This study proposes a cost-effective method for 3D thermal model reconstruction based on image-based modeling. Two smart phones and a low-cost thermal infrared camera are employed to acquire visible images and thermal images, respectively, that are fused for 3D thermal model reconstruction. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method is able to effectively reconstruct a 3D thermal model which extremely approximates its corresponding entity. The total computational time for the 3D thermal model reconstruction is intensive while generating dense points required for the creation of a geometric entity. Future work will improve the efficiency of the proposed method in order to expand its potential applications to in-time monitoring.

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Geo-spatial reporting for monitoring of household immunization coverage through mobile phones: Findings from a feasibility study

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

The use of technology to promote vaccination: A social ecological model based framework

The use of technology to promote vaccination: A social ecological model based framework

Impact of COVID-19 on vaccination programs: adverse or positive?

Fusion of Infrared Thermal Image and Visible Image for 3D Thermal Model Reconstruction Using Smartphone Sensors

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