The power of interactive maps for communicating spatio-temporal data to health professionals

Nils Benjamin Tjaden, Felix Geeraedts, Annelies Riezebos-Brilman, Caroline Kioko, N. al Naiemi, Justine Ianthe Blanford*, Nienke Beerlage - de Jong

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Abstract

While more and more health-related data is being produced and published every day, few of it is being prepared in a way that would be beneficial for daily use outside the scientific realm. Interactive visualizations that can slice and condense enormous amounts of multi-dimensional data into easy-to-digest portions are a promising tool that has been under-utilized for health-related topics. Here we present two case studies for how interactive maps can be utilized to make raw health data accessible to different target audiences: i) the European Notifiable Diseases Interactive Geovisualization (ENDIG) which aims to communicate the implementation status of disease surveillance systems across the European Union to public health experts and decision makers, and ii) the Zoonotic Infection Risk in Twente-Achterhoek Map (ZIRTA map), which aims to communicate information about zoonotic diseases and their regional occurrence to general practitioners and other healthcare providers tasked with diagnosing infectious diseases on a daily basis. With these two examples, we demonstrate that relatively straight-forward interactive visualization approaches that are already widely used elsewhere can be of benefit for the realm of public health.
Original languageEnglish
JournalGeospatial health
Volume19
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Aug 2024

Keywords

  • ITC-GOLD
  • ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE

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